E-Rate False Claims Case Headed to Trial

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2025 – A decade-old whistleblower case over allegedly fraudulent telecom subsidy claims is finally headed to trial. 

AT&T, which maintains its claims under the Federal Communications Commission’s E-Rate program were lawful, had tried to have the case dismissed this summer. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, denied that request in an Oct. 29 order.

That will send the case to trial, which a spokesperson for whistleblower’s law firm said was scheduled for Jan. 20.