{"id":345,"date":"2012-10-25T22:47:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2012\/10\/another_record_yearfalse_claim.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:43:01","slug":"another_record_yearfalse_claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/another_record_yearfalse_claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Record Year–False Claims Act Recoveries Triple in FY 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each Fall, the Justice Department tallies its recoveries of taxpayer dollars that have been pilfered through fraud directed at federal programs. A year ago, DOJ proudly announced $3 billion in recoveries in <\/a>False Claims Act <\/a>cases, and a record $8.7 billion recovered in the three years starting in 2009.<\/p>\n

Late this year, DOJ will announce that its fraud recoveries tripled<\/em> from $3 million in FY 2011 to more than $9 million in FY 2012. This trend of increasingly large recoveries of stolen taxpayer funds proves once again the effectiveness of laws like the False Claims Act, which incentivize whistleblowers to expose fraud through its qui tam<\/em> provisions. <\/p>\n

Although health care cases account for the vast majority of FCA recoveries, growing areas include banking, mortgage, and pension fraud cases involving fraudulently obtained taxpayer dollars, as my colleagues at Taxpayers Against Fraud point out. <\/a> States are also using their own false claims laws to recover stolen taxpayer funds.<\/p>\n

In qui tam cases, private citizen whistleblowers (known as “relators”) file suit on the government’s behalf to expose fraud against taxpayer funds. The whistleblowers can receive 15-25% of the government’s recovery of stolen funds if the government prosecutes the case, and 25-30% if the government leaves it to the whistleblower to pursue the recovery. <\/p>\n

Consider the history of False Claims Act recoveries that have totalled more than $39 billion since 1986, when Congress authorized meaningful rewards to whistleblowers:
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