Lack of Candor Keeps Defense Counsel Waiting for Payment; United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Southern Division, No. 1:16-CV00369 HTW-LRA; U.S. ex rel. James Aldridge v. Corporate Management Inc., et al.

The district court declined to approve a request by qui tam defendants to pay their attorneys’ fees, citing the defendants’ lack of candor about their finances and their previous attempts to spend down assets, apparently to avoid paying a future judgment in their healthcare fraud case.