State of New York ex rel. Edelweiss Fund, LLC, Respondent,
v.
JP Morgan Chase & Co. et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Decided December 29, 2020.
Decided December 29, 2020.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York ( Hal S. Shaftel , Holly Harrison and David Gavin Jorgensen of the bar of the State of Illinois, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel) for JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, appellants.
Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo ( Aaron M. Saykin of counsel), for M&T Bank Corporation and M&T Bank, appellants.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York ( Megan Barriger of the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Jonathan G. Cedarbaum of the bar of the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for Bank of America Corporation, Bank of America N.A., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., and BofA Merrill Lynch Asset Holdings, Inc., appellants.
Sidley Austin LLP, New York ( Joan M. Loughnane and David S. Kanter of counsel), for Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley Bank N.A., Morgan Stanley Capital Services, Inc., and Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc., appellants.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York ( Susanna M. Buergel and Kannon K. Shanmugam , of the bar of the District of Columbia, the State of Kansas and the State of Virginia, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for Citigroup Inc., Citibank, N.A., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., and Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Inc., appellants.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.
To state a claim under the New York False Claims Act (NYFCA), found at sections 187-194 of chapter 56, article XIII of the State Finance Law, the relator in this qui tam action must allege facts showing that defendants knowingly made, used, or caused to be made or used, a false record or statement material to an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the state or local government (State Finance Law § 189[1][g]). State Finance Law § 192(1-a) provides...
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