United States ex rel. Craig v. Hawthorne Machinery et al.

Law Office of Max Rodriguez PLLC, along with Pollock Cohen LLP and DiCello Levitt LLP, represent whistleblower Roger Craig in a qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act.
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The suit, filed in the Southern District of California, alleges that Hawthorne Machinery and other defendants engaged in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud, obtaining an over $8 million loan by claiming the company and its affiliates were a small business with fewer than 500 employees, when they actually had more than 500 employees and omitted affiliates and employees to represent themselves as smaller than they actually were.
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After declination, Mr. Craig elected to litigate the case on behalf of the government, as whistleblowers are entitled to do under the False Claims Act.
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The case is currently pending decision on the defendants’ motion to dismiss, which we opposed on Mr. Craig’s behalf.