Prosecutors can’t use attorney-client or work-product privilege as a sweeping bar to keep a Pittsburgh-based for-profit education company from deposing officials in the complex discovery of a multibillion-dollar qui tam case, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry of the Western District of Pennsylvania adopted the recommendation of the special master in the case, who had sided with the company, Education Management Corp., or EDMC, which runs more than 100 for-profit campuses across the country.
