False Claims Act

The 1986 amendments to the Act, of which CLIPI was the key proponent, provide financial incentives to encourage people to report fraud and overcharges by guaranteeing “whistleblowers” between 15% and 30% of the amount the government recovers. CLIPI’s ground-breaking FCA cases ultimately recover many millions of dollars of overcharges to the federal treasury. CLIPI’s trailblazing work on FCA legislation reforms to facilitate whistleblower claims that individuals or companies have defrauded the U.S. government, and allowing whistleblowers to obtain a part of the government’s recovery; to date, FCA recoveries on behalf of the federal government under the new FCA provisions have totaled well over $42 billion, while whistleblowers who have pursued such “qui tam” actions have recovered nearly $350 million.