Complaint — No. 1:22-cv-00789 (Dkt. 1, E.D. Va.)

Summary

Relator Karen Bloomfield's qui tam complaint under the False Claims Act, filed under seal, in United States ex rel. Karen Bloomfield v. Engineered Structures, Inc., Case 1:22-cv-00789-DJN-IDD, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, filed July 14, 2022 as Document 1. The complaint alleges that ESI, an Idaho construction company, misrepresented its number of employees (490) on an application for an April 12, 2020 PPP loan of $8,607,900.00 through Idaho First Bank. It alleges that the loan was forgiven in the amount of $8,706,478.00 and that ESI registered a private jet on November 3, 2020. It further alleges that ESI knowingly retained the funds as a reverse false claim; the relator worked in positions at ESI from October 1997 to April 2020. The complaint runs 31 pages and is signed by relator's counsel Rachel V. Rose.

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