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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has posted on its website a copy of the briefing they prepared for Congress on False Claims Act litigation. The report shows that health care and procurement fraud...

A whistle-blower case against defense contractor Custer Battles has resulted in a jury verdict against the company and its owners. The suit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act,...

The Federal government has filed a motion to intervene in a whistleblower suit against Mario Gabelli and his firm. The suit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, alleges that the...

An article in Modern Healthcare by Mark Taylor outlines some of the provisions in the federal Deficit Reduction Act that are intended to cut fraud by encouraging whistleblowers. One provision requires...

New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno says that a proposed reform of the state’s Medicaid system could save more than $2 billion a year. Bruno says that the Republican majority’s...

McKesson Corp., a wholesale pharmaceutical distributor, will pay $3 million to the federal government to settle claims that it defrauded the Department of Defense. The False Claims Act suit had alleged...

A case that will test whether the federal False Claims Act applies to the conduct of contractors working in Iraq is scheduled to start on February 14. The suit, the result of a whistle-blower complaint,...

Corporate Express Office Products, a Colorado-based company, has paid the United States $5.02 million to settle a qui tam suit brought under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. The suit...

In an article in the February 10, 2006 issue of the Hartford Courant, Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, suggests that a state false claims act would help restore integrity to state...

The Missouri Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Medicaid Fraud heard testimony supporting enactment of a state False Claims Act that would allow whistle-blowers to file suit on behalf of the...