A False Claims Act action by an attorney who claimed to have personal knowledge that some 60 companies defrauded Medicare was rightly dismissed, a federal appeals court held Monday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court’s finding that Buffalo personal injury lawyer J. Michael Hayes acted in bad faith and “should not now be allowed to walk away from his earlier misrepresentations.”

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