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U.S. EX REL. BUNK v. GOVERNMENT LOGISTICS N.V.

No. 15-1088.

842 F.3d 261 (2016)

UNITED STATES EX REL. Kurt BUNK and Ray Ammons, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and United States ex rel. Daniel Heuser, Plaintiff, v. GOVERNMENT LOGISTICS N.V., Defendant-Appellee, and Birkart Globistics GmbH & Co. Logistik und Service KG; The Pasha Group; Andreas Christ Spedition & Mobeltransport GmbH; John Doe, 1-100; American Mopac International, Incorporated; Doe Defendants; Gateways International; Allied Freight Forwarders; North American Van Lines, Inc.; Global Worldwide Incorporated; Air Land Forwarders Suddath; Covan International; Jet Forwarding Incorporated; Arpin International; Birkart Globistics AG; Thiel Logistik AG; Viktoria Schafer Internationale Spedition GmbH; Viktoria-SKS Kurt Schafer Internationale GmbH & Co., KG; Gillen & Garcon GmbH & Co. Internationale Spedition KG; Gillen & Garcon GmbH & Co. KG; M.T.S. Holding & Verwaltungs GmbH, d/b/a M.T.S. Gruppe; Andreas Christ GmbH; Michael Villinger; Erwin Weyand; Nicodemus Gosselin; Dieter Schmekel; Jurgen Graf; Horst Baur; Kurt Schafer; Martina Schafer; Birkart Vermogensverwaltung GmbH; Logwin Air + Ocean Deutschland GmbH; Logwin Holding Deutschland GmbH; Missy Donnelly; George Pasha; American Shipping Incorporated; Cartwright International Van Lines Incorporated; Jim Hahn; International Shippers Association Incorporated; Gosselin Worldwide Moving, N.V.; Gosselin Group N.V.; Marc Smet; Gosselin World Wide Moving, N.V.; Viktoria International Spedition; Jeffrey Carll Coffman; ITO Mobel Transport GmbH, Defendants. United States Attorney General, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: November 15, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Edgar Petite , Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, PC, St. Louis, Missouri, for Appellant. William Francis Coffield, IV , Laina Catherine Wilk Lopez , Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. Michael Shih , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus United States of America. ON BRIEF: Ann Lugbill , Mark Hanna , Lauren Hoff-Downing , Murphy Anderson PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Richard E. Greenberg , Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, PC, St. Louis, Missouri, for Appellant. Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Michael S. Raab , Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Dana J. Boente , United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Amicus United States of America.

Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge King wrote the opinion, in which Judge Shedd and Judge Thacker joined.

We are for the third time entertaining this complex matter, which began more than fifteen years ago as a bid-rigging scheme conjured up by shipping businesses to defraud the United States. In 2004, Gosselin Group N.V. (then known as Gosselin World Wide Moving, N.V.) and another business entity entered conditional guilty pleas...

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