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The False Claims Act is the single most important tool U.S. taxpayers have to recover the billions of dollars stolen through fraud by U.S. government contractors every year. Under the False Claims Act those who knowingly submit, or cause another person or entity to submit, false claims ...
there have been numerous and conflicting court rulings and injunctions as to whether “reporting companies” must comply with the Act. This has created confusion
This quote is a tenet created by the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. This statement is a paradox because something cannot be more equal than another. That goes against the very definition of equal. Even if something could be considered "more equal," the two parts of the sentence con...
Beyond offering a definition of online scams, we’ll take you through some of the most common types of scams and what they mean for your online security. Knowing the latest scams can go a long way in helping you protect yourself, your money, and your personal information online. 14 types...
Becker said that human error is the cause of "every single" vote switching claim he's encountered, yet these isolated incidents are often cited as proof to falsely claim widespread fraud. In Tarrant County, officialssaidthat one out of 58,000 ballots cast on the first day of early voting ...
Financial identity theft.This is the most common type of identity theft. Financial identity theft aims to gain economic benefits by using a stolen identity. Tax-related identity theft.In this type of exploit, the criminal files a false tax return, for example, with the Internal Revenue Service...
The False Claims Act: What Every Contractor Needs to KnowEdmund T. Baxa Jr
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...
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is United States legislation that providesdata privacyand security provisions forsafeguarding medical information. The law has emerged into greater prominence in recent years with the many healthdata breachescaused by cyber attacks andransomwareattac...