Complaint — No. 2:21-cv-05935 (Dkt. 1, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

A False Claims Act qui tam complaint, filed under seal July 22, 2021 as Document 1 in United States ex rel. Ashwani Chawla v. Unified Care Services, LLC et al., Case No. CV21-5935-GW(RAOx), in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Relator Ashwani Chawla, a California CPA and nursing home administrator, names Unified Care Services, LLC, its president Emmanuel David and affiliated skilled nursing facility operators in California and Arizona, stating the company is affiliated with roughly a dozen healthcare facilities. It alleges the defendants received PPP loans totaling $14,400,356 although, with their affiliates, they exceeded the 500-employee cap and had other sources of financial assistance. Its First through Fourth Causes of Action cite 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A), (B), (C) and (G); it seeks three times the government's damages plus civil penalties.

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