Roundtable-False Claims
Dec. 1, 2013
False Claims
An update with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Morrison & Foerster; and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The federal False Claims Act - originally intended to stop fraud against the Union Army during the Civil War - seemed destined to fade into history after 1943, when Congress limited the rewards and evidence it allowed. But Congress revived the law amid Reagan-era defense procurement scandals, and California led a parade of states adopting similar statutes. The laws let people who uncover fraud sue for recovery on the government's behalf and retain some of the damages awarded; ...
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