{"id":29,"date":"2007-02-08T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2007\/02\/lincolnslaw_and_whistleblower.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:56:57","slug":"lincolnslaw_and_whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/lincolnslaw_and_whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln&#8217;s Law and Whistleblower Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers every day lose money because of fraud against their government.  Current examples include government contracting fraud in Iraq, procurement fraud regarding the efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Hurricane Katrina and numerous false claim schemes under both the Medicare and Medicaid programs.  Those who are bent of fraud are usually clever and devious.  This is the very reason why President Abraham Lincoln enacted the False Claims Act during the American Civil War in 1863.  <\/p>\n<p>\tDuring the Civil War, as today, there were greedy contractors bent on defrauding the government at taxpayer&#8217;s expense.  At President Lincoln&#8217;s request, the False Claims Act was enacted into law and was specifically directed at an effort to &#8220;root out fraud against the government. . .[a]nd to encourage individuals who are aware of fraud being perpetrated against the government to bring information forward.&#8221;   Thus, &#8220;Lincoln&#8217;s law,&#8221; the False Claims Act, has literally been on the books for over 140 years.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe False Claims Act as sponsored by President Lincoln was designed to help the government stop procurement fraud during the Civil War.  Congress intended that the False Claims Act would encourage private citizens to file cases in the name of the United States to recover damages when false and fraudulent claims were submitted to the government.  These lawsuits, oftentimes called Whistleblower or Qui Tam cases, provide a way for private citizens to share in the recovery of damages recovered.  The term &#8220;Qui Tam&#8221; described the procedure well and derives from a Latin phrase which means &#8220;Who pursues the action on our Lord the King&#8217;s behalf as well as his own.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/lincolnslaw_and_whistleblower\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Lincoln&#8217;s Law and Whistleblower Claims\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers every day lose money because of fraud against their government. 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