March 02, 2023
A former IBM employee who accused the software giant of tricking the IRS into buying $265 million of its products dropped his case after a decade of litigation aimed at whistleblowing, according to documents filed in D.C. federal court.
July 06, 2021
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday revived some claims in a former IBM employee's suit that alleged the company unlawfully coerced the Internal Revenue Service into a $265 million software deal.
June 17, 2020
A former IBM employee who contends the company fraudulently induced the IRS into a $265 million software deal has told the D.C. Circuit it shouldn't let IBM off the hook by dismissing his whistleblower case.
May 13, 2020
There is no evidence IBM coerced the IRS into a $265 million deal after auditing the agency's use of its software, the company's attorneys told the D.C. Circuit, arguing a lower court correctly dismissed a former employee's False Claims Act lawsuit.
March 19, 2020
The federal government has pressed the D.C. Circuit to overturn a lower court's "erroneous" decision to throw out a whistleblower's claims that IBM Corp. fabricated audit results to mislead the IRS into signing a $265 million software deal.
March 12, 2020
A whistleblower suit clearly shows that IBM fabricated audit results to mislead the IRS into signing a $265 million software deal and justifies reversing the suit's dismissal by a lower court, the whistleblower has told the D.C. Circuit.