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VERMONT NATIONAL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. NORTHSTAR WIRELESS, LLC et al

  1. November 21, 2024

    Vt. Telecom Hints DOJ Protected Biden Ally In Dish FCA Suit

    A Vermont telecom all but accused the Department of Justice of undercutting the company's False Claims Act suit alleging fraudulent Dish Network spectrum bidding in order to protect a major donor to President Joe Biden, arguing Thursday that its suit should go forth even without the government's blessing.

  2. June 13, 2024

    Telecom Says Gov't Switching Sides In Dish Suit Is 'Bad Faith'

    Vermont National Telephone Co. is fighting to preserve its false claim suit against Dish Network and others in the face of a dismissal bid from the federal government, arguing in a newly public filing in D.C. federal court that the government has provided no good reason for its "bad faith" change of heart.

  3. June 11, 2024

    Dish Fights To Weigh In On Spectrum False Claims Act Case

    Dish Network deserves a say in whether the whistleblower claims accusing it of using sham companies to scam the government out of some $3.3 billion are dismissed — and the relator's suggestion that it doesn't is "facially absurd," the company has told the court.

  4. June 07, 2024

    Gov't Presses For Dismissal Of False Claim Case Against Dish

    The federal government has said a false claim suit against Dish Network Corp. "will not vindicate the government's interests" and has asked the D.C. federal judge to dismiss the case Vermont National Telephone Co. filed over Dish buying discounted spectrum.

  5. March 11, 2024

    Gov't Says Cost Trumps Return In Dish Spectrum Fraud Case

    The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge to dismiss a suit accusing Dish Network of trying to buy discounted spectrum through sham companies, saying the plaintiff hasn't shown that Dish hid its interest in the buyers and the companies never received Federal Communications Commission bidding credits anyway.

  6. March 01, 2024

    Gov't Wants Spectrum Fraud Case Against Dish Dismissed

    The Justice Department has decided to intervene in a suit accusing Dish Network of using sham companies to buy spectrum from the Federal Communications Commission at a $3.3 billion discount, but not to take over litigation of the matter — it wants to end the whole thing.

  7. November 09, 2023

    Dish Network Must Keep Fighting $3.3B Spectrum Fraud Suit

    A District of Columbia federal judge on Thursday refused to toss a $3.3 billion whistleblower suit accusing Dish Network and its affiliates of fraudulently obtaining small business discounts on wireless spectrum licenses, rejecting the companies' contention that the government clearly already knew about the allegations before the suit's filing.

  8. March 23, 2021

    Dish Network Beats $3.3B Spectrum Auction Credit Fraud Suit

    Dish Network has defeated a whistleblower's suit accusing the satellite television provider of using sham companies to buy spectrum from the Federal Communications Commission at a $3.3 billion discount, after a Washington, D.C., federal judge found the allegations don't hold up.

  9. May 15, 2019

    Whistleblower Says Dish Can't Exit $3.3B Bidding Credit Suit

    Dish Network shouldn't be allowed to duck a suit accusing it of using sham companies to buy spectrum from the Federal Communications Commission at a $3.3 billion discount, a whistleblower has told a D.C. federal court, saying its defense is "predicated on a myth."

  10. September 26, 2016

    Dish Hit With FCA Suit Over $3.3B In Bidding Credits

    Dish Network Corp. violated the False Claims Act by hiding its ties to purported "sham" companies in order to get $3.3 billion in small-business discounts on wireless services licenses snapped up through a spectrum auction, according to a complaint unsealed in a D.C. federal court on Thursday.