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A Summary of the Department of Justice’s 2015 False Claims Act Review

February 1, 2016 By Andrew Howard

The False Claims Act (FCA) again proved itself to be the government’s primary tool to combat procurement fraud. According to the Department of Justice, in 2015 alone, the government recovered more than $3.5 billion from FCA settlements and judgments for the fourth year in a row, bringing the total recovery since January 2009 to $26.4 billion. Of the $3.5 billion recovered last year, roughly $1.1 billion came from settlements and judgments in cases alleging false claims for payment under government contracts, raising the total recovery for government contracts and procurement fraud settlements [...]Read more

Filed Under: Government Contract-Related Investigations and the False Claims Act Tagged With: False Claims Act (FCA), Qui Tam, Recoveries, U.S. Army Communication-Electronics Command (CECOM), U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Whistleblower

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