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Civil Litigation

May 1, 2019

Rare False Claims Act civil suit trial opens in LA

Five years after being filed, jury selection and opening statements began Tuesday for a rare civil suit brought under the False Claims Act at a downtown Los Angeles federal court.

Rare False Claims Act civil suit trial opens in LA
U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald

LOS ANGELES -- Five years after being filed, jury selection and opening statements began Tuesday for a rare civil suit brought under the False Claims Act in the Central District of California.

The relator, David Ji, claims business owner Tony Hang and his company Unichem defrauded the U.S. government by intentionally mislabeling tons of the supplement and food additive glycine before it passed through U.S. customs from China in...

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