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U.S. v. RIVERA

Nos. 94-1081, 94-1082.

55 F.3d 703 (1995)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Guillermo Alemany RIVERA, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Edgar M. Stella PEREZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Kiernan with whom Robert M. Simels, P.C., New York City, was on brief for appellant Edgar M. Stella Perez.

Pedro J. Varela, Hato Rey, PR, for appellant Guillermo Alemany Rivera.

Sushma Soni, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Frank W. Hunger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Guillermo Gil, U.S. Atty., and Douglas N. Letter, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, were on brief for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

The United States filed this civil action in the district court against defendants Guillermo Alemany Rivera ("Alemany") and Edgar Stella Perez ("Stella"). Seeking damages under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 (1982), the government alleged that defendants had caused a false claim for mortgage loan insurance benefits to be presented to the Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"). The...

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