U.S. EX REL. SWAN v. COVENANT CARE, INC.

No. CIV-S-99-1891 DFL JFM.

279 F.Supp.2d 1212 (2002)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Ila SWAN and Violette King, Plaintiff, v. COVENANT CARE, INC. et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

August 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Niall P. McCarthy, Cotchett Pitre Simon and McCarthy, San Francisco Airport Office Center, Burlingame, CA, Adisa-Mari Abudu-Davis, United States Attorney, Sacramento, CA, Gail Killefer, United States Attorney, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff.

Mark E. Reagan, Hooper Lundy and Bookman Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND ORDER

LEVI, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Ila Swan ("Swan") brings this action on behalf of the United States against defendant Covenant Care, Inc. and related corporations (collectively "Covenant Care") under the false records provision of the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(2).1 Swan alleges that Covenant Care routinely falsified patient records in order to conceal staffing and funding...

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