{"id":3670,"date":"2021-12-15T19:34:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwhtlaw.com\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2022-09-23T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:16:17","slug":"fabyanske-attorneys-mark-becker-and-alex-athmann-settle-whistleblower-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fwhtlaw.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/15\/fabyanske-attorneys-mark-becker-and-alex-athmann-settle-whistleblower-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabyanske attorneys Mark Becker and Alex Athmann Settle Whistleblower Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fwhtlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MBAA2-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3672 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fwhtlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MBAA2-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The law firm Fabyanske, Westra, Hart, &amp; Thomson, P.A. reached a settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit commenced under the Minnesota False Claims Act against defendants who are alleged to have overbilled various governmental entities.\u00a0 The Defendants deny the allegations. The settlement provides for payments in excess of $675,000. The whistleblower&#8217;s share of the additional payments is approximately 29.6%, and the rest will go to the public entities. The settlement also provides for payment of the whistleblower&#8217;s attorneys&#8217; fees and costs. The lead attorneys for the whistleblower were <a href=\"http:\/\/fwhtlaw.com\/attorneys\/mark-r-becker\/\">Mark Becker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fwhtlaw.com\/attorneys\/alexander-b-athmann\/\">Alex Athmann<\/a> of Fabyanske, Westra, Hart, and Thomson, PA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The law firm Fabyanske, Westra, Hart, &amp; Thomson, P.A. reached a settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit commenced under the Minnesota False Claims Act against defendants who are alleged to have\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fabyanske attorneys Mark Becker and Alex Athmann Settle Whistleblower Lawsuit - Fabyanske, Westra, Hart &amp; 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