When Atlanta attorney Joseph Wargo and partner David Pernini first filed a federal whistleblower case against a private, for-profit university with campuses in Atlanta’s northern suburbs, they had no idea the litigation would last more than eight years.
But Wargo said this week that the partners’ belief in the case against American InterContinental University and parent company Career Education Corp. prompted them to hold the course on behalf of four whistleblowers from the university’s Dunwoody campus, even after federal prosecutors declined to intervene on the whistleblowers’ behalf and U.S. District Judge Richard Story tossed out the case in 2011.
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