An assistant director of a nonprofit after-school program has been permitted to bring a whistleblower retaliation complaint under the federal False Claims Act when he was fired after complaining to his superiors about possible fraud in the program. The employee claimed that the executive director and CFO had engaged in fraudulent conduct creating and submitting fraudulent grant applications, budgets and expense reports for federal funding. He claimed that when he and another employee complained, the CFO said “we know where to put things so they don’t look for it,” “the organization could not pay its staff on what they give us,” and “look, they will not check these programs… we know what we’...