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To: El Sordo

Which of those would I have “standing” for?


110 posted on 09/01/2010 11:58:55 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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To: butterdezillion

I got off my lazy duff and looked at the U.S. code. I see no provision for qui tam enforcement of false statements. So the question is whether the qui tam provision under the False Claims Act might be used. The following lists what are considered false claims.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode31/usc_sec_31_00003729——000-.html

Offhand, it’s not obvious what might apply to Obama, since false claims specifically “does not include requests or demands for money or property that the Government has paid to an individual as compensation for Federal employment.”
But if there is a contracting provision he has violated, then Fukino theoretically could be prosecuted under “knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim”

It may bolster your spirits to remember that for all the murder and mayhem Al Capone caused, what he went to prison for was the more mundane crime of tax evasion.


114 posted on 09/01/2010 12:15:28 PM PDT by DrC
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To: butterdezillion

You don’t need standing for any of those.

Standing only applies to civil lawsuits and the concept exists for very good reasons.


120 posted on 09/01/2010 1:06:01 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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