{"id":151,"date":"2008-04-03T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2008\/04\/major_whistleblower_law_develo.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:51:50","slug":"major_whistleblower_law_develo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/major_whistleblower_law_develo\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Whistleblower Law Development: False Claims Act Correction Act Is Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today saw a major development that could affect every whistleblower, whistleblower attorney, and whistleblower case involving the False Claims Act<\/a>, the nation’s primary whistleblower law. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today approved new legislation to restore the False Claims Act to its originally intended strength, by eliminating a series of “loopholes” that dishonest government contractors had used to avoid liability.<\/p>\n

Our whistleblower lawyer blog<\/a> has written extensively about the False Claims Act, the qui tam <\/em>statute <\/a>that allows private citizens to report fraud as whistleblowers or “relators,” and to share in the government’s recovery of damages. We have followed the development of the new whistleblower law amendments, the False Claims Act Correction Act (S. 2041)<\/a>, since it was introduced last September by a bipartisan group of Senators (Grassley, Durbin, Leahy, and Specter).<\/p>\n

The advocacy group Taxpayers Against Fraud (with which I am proud to be associated) describes the new law as “A Better Rat Trap” designed to put more “snap” into the False Claims Act, and summarizes its key provisions as follows:<\/p>\n

Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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