Section 3732. False claims jurisdiction (a) Actions under section 3730.–Any action under section 3730 may be brought in any judicial district in which the defendant or, in the case of multiple defendants, any one defendant can be found, resides, transacts business, or in which any act pros...
The False Claims Act is an American federal law that allows people who are not affiliated with the government to file actions against federal contractors they accuse of committing claims fraud against the government. The act of filing such actions is informally called "whistleblowing". Persons ...
The legal definition of a “claim” under the federal False Claims Act (pdf linkhere)is several paragraphs long, but it can be boiled down to the following: a claim is an assertion of a right to government money or property. One way or another, every false claim involves someone asserting...
TheFederal False Claims Act(“FCA”) imposes civil penalties on people and companies who “knowingly” (as that term is defined in the FCA) submit a false claim or statement to a federally funded program, or otherwise conspire to defraud the government. ...
The pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy chains, and individual pharmacies have all come under scrutiny using the Federal False Claims Act (FCA).4 The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently noted that over the past 10 years, the pharmaceutical industry was one of the largest business categories to ente...
federal government, including provisions tethering allegedly unlawful DEI programs to potential False Claims Act (FCA) liability. Despite the unusually sweeping breadth of this injunction, the Trump administration retains significant latitude to undertake actions targeting federal contractor DEI programs it ...
Whistleblower litigation— We represent and protect the interests of individuals who report false claims, overbilling, upcoding, unbundling, kickbacks, false certification, and other wrongdoing that defrauds the government. Under the Federal False Claims Act, a whistleblower is entitled to a portion...
agreement itself, but explicitly stated in the press release announcing the settlement that “[b]ecause the company self-reported the conduct to the government, it was able to resolve its False Claims Act liability for only 1.5 times the amount of monetary loss caused by its false claims.”[...
The federal False Claims Act also contains a provision that protects a whistleblower from retaliation by his/her employer. This applies to any employee who is discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or discriminated against in his/her employment as a result of the employee’s lawful...
By doing so, Congress put into play a powerful public-private partnership for uncovering fraud against the federal fisc and obtaining the maximum recovery for American taxpayers. Changing the Culture of Fraud The False Claims Act is about more than money. It is also about discouraging fraud ...