Complaint — No. 1:24-cv-00849 (Dkt. 1, E.D. Va.)

Summary

A qui tam complaint under the False Claims Act, filed in camera and under seal, by relator The Tarbell Group, LLC in United States ex rel. The Tarbell Group, LLC v. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, et al., Case 1:24-cv-00849-LMB-LRV, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, filed May 21, 2024 as Document 1. It alleges that each defendant is a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization, a category the complaint says was always excluded from PPP eligibility, and that each falsely certified eligibility. The defendants include Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Road Runners Club of America, Virginia Rush Soccer, Inc. and Metropolitan Business League. The complaint lists each loan, including a $285,500.00 first-draw loan to Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, and seeks three times the forgiven amounts plus civil penalties.

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