Fourteen projects across Central Massachusetts have received more than $152 million in federal and state low-interest-rate loans and grants to improve water quality, upgrade or replace drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, and reduce treatment plant energy use and costs.
Where a defendant in a Massachusetts False Claims Act proceeding has moved to compel production of confidential communications, that motion should be denied because the FCA creates an implied attorney-client relationship between counsel for a qui tam relator and any public entity that the relator is representing. “Thomas Minarik and James Cicerone worked for years