Illegal Pay Verdict Against POGO, Gov't Worker Nixed

By Pete Brush

Law360, New York (August 06, 2010, 4:31 PM ET) -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a district court erred when it failed to instruct a jury to account for an oversight group's intent in sharing settlement money from an oil royalties-related qui tam suit with a government adviser, an exchange that allegedly violated a law restricting nongovernment pay for federal workers.

The civil jury that convicted U.S. Department of the Interior senior economist Robert A. Berman and the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight was not properly briefed on whether the defendants intended to break...
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