$5 Billion Recovered Through False Claims Act In 2012
- December 05, 2012 by Qui Tam
- Federal False Claims Act
The Department of Justice announced that it recovered a record $5 billion from companies that defrauded the government through the False Claims Act in 2012, $3.3 billion of which came from cases filed by qui tam whistleblowers. The government has recovered $13.3 billion under the False Claims Act since 2009, the largest four year total in history. Of the $5 billion in recovery, approximately $3 billion came from healthcare fraud cases and $1.4 billion from housing and mortgage fraud cases.
For more information, please see:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/December/12-ag-1439.html