Berg & Androphy, Author at Law Offices of David Berg

Berg leads B&A Team to Preliminary Injunction against President Trump, Postmaster General DeJoy and United States Postal Service

October 14, 2020

A Washington, D.C., federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore postal service overtime pay and allow late mail deliveries, affirming parts of a lawsuit filed by a group of allegedly disenfranchised primary voters as mail-in ballots arrive for the general election. Judge Emmet Sullivan granted a preliminary injunction to four voters who requested...

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Bill Moyers: Taking Trump to Court to Protect Our Votes

September 14, 2020

David Berg, one of America’s leading trial lawyers, has taken Donald Trump to court to stop what he describes as a conspiracy by the president, the postmaster general, and the Postal Service itself to rig the coming election. It’s a mesmerizing case, on behalf of four voters in particular and all voters potentially, and if...

Holocaust Art Restitution

Lawsuit to Recover Dutch Paintings Hits Snag, We Will Pursue to Supreme Court if Needed

August 11, 2020

In 2018 Mount Pleasant resident Bruce Berg sued the government of the Netherlands in an effort to recover 144 paintings that once wre part of the inventory of an important art gallery, Firma D. Katz, located in the Dutch city of Dieren and operated by his grandfather and great-uncle. Benjamin and Nathan Katz were...

Qui Tam

Inaugural FBA False Claims Act Virtual Trial Shows How Remote Trials Can Be Conducted

July 28, 2020

Two months ago, organizers for a mock trial program decided to pull together an online version of an event that ordinarily takes two years to plan. Joel M. Androphy, a partner at Berg & Androphy in Houston and co-chair of the program, has helped organize the biennial National False Claims Act and Qui Tam Trial...

Pro Bono / Community Service

Berg & Androphy Continues Support for Fifth Ward Center for Urban Transformation

July 1, 2020

Program Aims to Break School-to-Prison Pipeline The Center for Urban Transformation’s Juvenile Justice Diversion Program is expanding its capacity to defend Fifth Ward’s young people, with a fellowship awarded to graduating UH law student Gavriella Roisman and supervised by attorney Joel Androphy of Berg & Androphy. The UH Law Center Graduate Fellowship will enhance the Center...

Pro Bono / Community Service

A Conversation About Race and Racism – Join Us on June 23

June 23, 2020

Please join us on June 23 at 6:45 pm for this conversation about race and racism with Pastor Harvey Clemons and members of his congregation. Joel Androphy is involved as pro bono atty and Founding board member of the Center for Urban Transformation in the fifth ward community. Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7190182866

Qui Tam thequitamblog

The Department of Defense’s Role in Qui Tam Cases: Defenders of the Country and the Taxpayer Dollar

May 5, 2020

The False Claims Act encourages citizens to report fraudulent activity involving government funds. According to the Department of Justice, fraud claims involving the Department of Defense accounted for $252.1 million of recovered funds in 2019 –– double the amount of recovered funds from 2018.[1] Fraud on the Department of Defense is persistent and includes product...

White Collar Criminal Defense

U.S. Charges Two Iranians Over Oil Tanker Purchase, Seeking $12 Million Forfeiture

May 5, 2020

Berg & Androphy’s Michael Fay is representing the unsuspecting Tanker owner. “Polembros and Crystal had no idea that this counterparty [Taif Mining, the defendant] had engaged in the conduct alleged in this complaint, and they would have never done business with them if they had known,” said Michael. They also never received full payment and...

Qui Tam thequitamblog

Joel Androphy Interviewed by Forbes Magazine – Calls for Oversight Task Force to Prevent COVID-19 U.S. Stimulus Package Fraud and to Empower Qui Tam Whistleblowers

April 3, 2020

English-born, American political activist and philosopher Thomas Paine wrote in 1776 that, “THESE are the times that try men’s souls.” Paine was of course talking about the Revolutionary War and not the current and unprecedented crisis America and the entire globe is experiencing due to the rampant pandemic brought about by the spread of the...

Legal Commentary

Fraud In A Post COVID-19 World

March 27, 2020

While scammers are out there marking up hand sanitizer and surgical masks, there is a much larger risk of fraud looming in the future. Congress is contemplating a $2 trillion economy saving, stimulus package and nobody outside of congress knows exactly where the money will go. That amount of money is more than the annual...

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