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The “Big Dig” collapse has led to a $458 million settlement by contractors responsible for the Boston Central Artery\/Tunnel highway project. Whistleblowers using the federal and state False Claims Acts <\/a>helped bring about that result.<\/p>\n

Of the $458 million settlement, $23 million is being paid to the United States under the federal False Claims Act<\/a>, and $40 million will go to Massachusetts under its state False Claims Act, as a result of qui tam whistleblower litigation. (As we have written about extensively on this whistleblower lawyer blog<\/a>, more and more states are enacting state versions of the federal False Claims Act <\/a>to recover damages for fraud against the government. Private citizen whistleblowers or “relators” can receive up to 25 or 30% of the recovery.)<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Massachusetts and the Justice Department for concluding this settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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