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> Thomas, a former Duke lab analyst, sued the university on behalf of the federal government You can do that?!?

• molsongolden 6y ago
  > “[...] a whistleblower who exposes fraud on the government may bring a qui tam lawsuit on behalf of the government and potentially receive a share of the recovery recovered by the government as a reward for bringing that action.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam
• rahimnathwani 6y ago
  Not only that, the article says that he actually took it across the finish line: '"In many meritorious cases, the government decides to 'intervene' at that stage of the proceedings, basically taking over the lead of the case," lawyers for Thomas said. "But here, that never happened. This left Mr. Thomas and his lawyers at the point of the spear – going against a venerated academic institution with enormous resources." Thomas' attorneys, from the law firms Gentry Locke; Healy Hafemann Magee & Thomas; and Brooks Pierce, said that in the fallout from the case, Joseph Thomas was "vilified and suffered substantial personal hardships as he found himself out of work for over a year."'