requires. Appellees nevertheless invoke the broad purposes and legislative history of the Civil War statute. We think that is not helpful because, as the Supreme Court has said, Congress’ primary concern at the time — admittedly not its exclusive one— was to put an end to “frauds perpetrated by large [military] contractors during the' Civil War.” United States v. Bornstein, 423 U.S. 303, 309, 96 S.Ct. 523, 46 L.Ed.2d 514 (1976); see United States ex rel. Graber v. City of New York, 8 F.Supp.2d 343, 352 (S.D.N.Y.1998). Appellees point to the Supreme Court’s statement that Congress sought to “reach all types of fraud, without qualification, that might result in financial loss to the Government.” United States v. Neifert-White Co., 390 U.S. 228, 232, 88 S.Ct. 959, 19 L.Ed.2d 1061 (1968) (<HOLDING>). But we think that description is too general
holding the government liable to plaintiffs for breach of contract holding that the term claim was not limited to claims submitted for payments due and owing from the government but included claims for favorable action by the government upon applications for loans holding where 1 the government provided the defendant with all the necessary drugmaking materials 2 the government provided instructions on how to make the drugs and 3 the defendant sought out the materials and help from the undercover government agents the case set the outer limits to which the government may go in the quest to ferret out and prosecute crimes but the governments conduct did not rise to the level of a due process violation holding that amtrak is an agency of the government  for purposes of the constitutional obligations of government holding that the alien was entitled to performance by the government of its promise that the government would not oppose any of his motions for relief from deportation