United States v. MacOmb Contracting Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding the three-year limitations extension under § 3731(b)(2) began once the FBI reported their investigation to the Civil Division of the DOJ
• imposing the maximum penalty after awarding $13 million in treble damages, which compensated the Government for all ancillary costs, because the contractor failed to cooperate with the Government’s investigation
• “The ‘official of the United States charged with responsibility’ could only have been the appropriate official of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, which alone has the authority to initiate litigation under the Act.”
• “The ‘official of the United States charged with responsibility’ could only have been the appropriate official of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, which alone has the authority to initiate litigation under the Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).