{"id":157,"date":"2008-07-16T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2008\/07\/major_qui_tam_whistleblower_la.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:51:47","slug":"major_qui_tam_whistleblower_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/major_qui_tam_whistleblower_la\/","title":{"rendered":"Major “Qui Tam” Whistleblower Law Amendments Clear House Judiciary Committee, Which Approves “False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very important amendments to the nation’s major whistleblower law, the False Claims Act<\/a>, cleared the House Judiciary Committee today. The False Claims Act Corrections Act of 2007 is intended to restore the False Claims Act to its originally intended usefulness. It will eliminate many “loopholes” that dishonest government contractors have used to avoid liability.<\/p>\n

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

Taxpayers Against Fraud (with which I am proud to be associated) summarizes its key provisions as follows:<\/p>\n

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

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