Perspective
Jan. 21, 2011
The False Claims Act: A Comparison of California and Federal Law
California has one of the most powerful anti-fraud statutes in the country. By Matthew Zandi of Steel Zandi.
"Show me a government contract, and I will show you fraud!" This was a statement I made frequently (and only half-jokingly) during my tenure as an assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the Affirmative Civil Enforcement taskforce at the U.S. Department of Justice, where we prosecuted the federal False Claims Act (FCA) exclusively.
Since 1863, the False Claims Act, passed by President Abraham Lincoln and reinforced in 1986 by P...
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