False Claims Against the Government

• The Government Revamps Its Weapon Against False Claims: The New Amendments To The False Claims Act.

Federal government funding now comes with increased potential liability and treble damages exposure for a broader scope of entities as a result of new...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• The Government Revamps Its Weapon Against False Claims: The New Amendments To The False Claims Act

Federal government funding now comes with increased potential liability and treble damages exposure for a broader scope of entities as a result of new...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• False claims.

Sanctions for false claims against the federal government

• American Criminal Law Review
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 2, March 2002

• Graham County Soil and Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson, 559 U. S. (2010)

...The False Claims Act (FCA) authorizes both the Attorney Gene... “a congressional, administrative, or Government Accounting Office [(GAO)] report, hearing, audit, ... alleged that petitioners retaliated against her for aiding the federal investigation of those ...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Fiasco

According to the latest reports, housing prices continue to fall in many areas of the country, in some cities falling to pre-2000 price levels. Sink- ing home prices come on the back of continued fallout from the excesses of the housing boom: the recent announcement that New York State's attorney general has begun a new round of home loan industry probes, the lawsuit by the federal government against Deutsche Bank under the False Claims Act, and the ongoing negotiations led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Elizabeth Warren, Obama administration special assistant for consumer credit issues, between state attorneys general and mortgage servicers related to "robo-signing" and other irregularities. As housing prices fall and enforcement actions rise, something else will rise as well:...

• The Washington Times
• June 10, 2011

• 20 CFR 429.109 - Are there any penalties for filing false claims?

...Subpart A: Claims Against the Government Under the Federal Tort Claims Act. ...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 20: Employees' Benefits

• Commentary: Hospital-Employed Physicians: Learn the Lessons of Sulzbach

In September 2007, the federal government filed a false claims complaint against the former Corporate Integrity Program Director of Tenet Healthcare, Christi Sulzbach. Sulzbach, an attorney, allegedly had knowledge of, and failed to stop, Tenet from paying employed physicians compensation based on referrals for hospital-based ancillary lab services. According to the complaint, Sulzbach was aware that this compensation probably violated the federal Stark law. As part of her job, Sulzbach had a duty to investigate, correct and report such alleged violations under a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) between the government and Tenet's predecessor. According to the government, her failure to do so violated the federal False Claims Act.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• January 07, 2009

• False-Claims Suit Filed Against U.S. Contractor ; Company Accused of Charging Printing Office Exorbitant Rate

The federal government has filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against a printing company over accusations it charged the Government Printing Office nearly $500,000 for work it paid a subcontractor to do for $61,000. The government's suit also states Controlled Quality Corp. submitted dozens of false invoices under a contract with the Government Printing Office for work the company was performing for the Internal Revenue Service starting in 2001.

• The Washington Times
• November 09, 2007

• False claims.

Eleventh Survey of White Collar Crime The False Claims Act is intended to protect the federal government from false, fictitious or fraudulent claims made against it. Originally, the law focused on federal procurement, but it also applies to Medicare fraud, Social Security fraud and improper tax refund claims. The defendant must be shown to have presented the claim to the US government or a government affiliated entity, the claim must be false, fictitious or fraudulent, and the defendant must have known of this falsity. Civil suits may be brought by private plaintiffs under the False Claims Act.

• American Criminal Law Review
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 3, March 1996

• U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Qui Tam Case

The False Claims Act's "original source" provision requires that relators have direct and independent knowledge of the information on which their allegations are based at all stages of the litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. A lead engineer at a nuclear weapons plant in Colorado filed a False Claims Act suit against his former employer. He alleged that the facility, which operated as a government contractor, had violated various federal and state regulations and laws when it improperly released plutonium waste and contaminated ground water. In an amended complaint, the relator specifically alleged that the facility violated federal law by storing leaky blocks of "pondcrete" - a combination of toxic pond sludge and cement.

• Lawyers USA
• April 10, 2007