( January 6, 2026, 12:02 PM EST) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A New York federal magistrate judge issued a report and recommendation advising entering default judgment against a pharmacy in a relator’s qui tam suit accusing the pharmacy of violating the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and related New York state law by participating in a “massive fraudulent prescription billing scheme” regarding the submission of false claims to government insurers, finding that the relator “has alleged all of the elements of a plausible claim under the FCA” against the pharmacy, which has failed to appear....