Corporate,
Contracts,
Administrative/Regulatory
Jul. 12, 2017
It’s time to reform the False Claims Act
The FCA has proven to be ineffective at preventing fraud and encouraging ethical corporate behavior.
Matthew Zandi
Senior Managing Director
Guidepost Solutions
Pepperdine Univ SOL
Matthew is a former Orange County deputy district attorney, senior trial lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice, assistant U.S attorney, and counsel at Nixon Peabody, he has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors with more than 40 trials in state, federal and international courts. Mr. Zandi is nationally recognized as one of the leading experts in Qui Tam, fraud and various state and federal whistleblower statutes.
"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, passed by President Abraham Lincoln and reinforced in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan. Originally enacted during the Civil War to fight profiteering by supplie...
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