Paul: The feds would decline to intervene in another private False Claims Act case against St.
Like Amgen, Glaxo also was charged with criminal misbranding and civil False Claims Act liability.
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The False Claims Act lawsuit could require Armstrong to return substantial sponsorship fees and pay a hefty fine.
Unlike so many laws and the lawmakers who draft them, the False Claims Act implicitly accounts for the fact that incentives matter.
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The same year the False Claims Act was amended, Phillips set up Taxpayers Against Fraud, a nonprofit group out to aid whistleblowers.
The False Claims Act not only promotes integrity but marketplace policing in which the government often plays a supporting role, rather than the lead.
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The key difference, however, is that whistleblowers under the False Claims Act recover their share of the bounty irrespective of how much the government recovers.
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The provisions are modeled on the False Claims Act, which allows whistleblowers who report fraud related to government procurement to share in any government recovery.
Two recent federal appellate court opinions have expanded the availability of qui tam suits under the False Claims Act (FCA), and created new incentives for abuse.
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The decision is important for future False Claims Act cases because it requires the government to prove more than just a corporate effort to increase profits.
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The California False Claims Act, like other state false claims laws, allows private citizens to sue companies or individuals that defraud state or local government entities.
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But the False Claims Act essentially permit derivative actions whereby citizens could sue on behalf of the government when the Feds, rather than the citizen plaintiff, had suffered damages.
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Pace is a veteran Los Angeles lawyer with a national practice representing plaintiffs bringing False Claims Act lawsuits against corporate defendants alleged to have cheated federal and state governments.
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The U.S. government sued KBR on Thursday for violating the False Claims Act, alleging the company improperly billed the U.S. Army for private security services KBR used in Iraq.
Allegations include violations of the False Claims Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as the Anti-Kickback Act of 1986 and the Truth In Negotiations Act.
Landis was a teammate of Armstrong on the Postal Service-sponsored team from 2002 to 2004, and his lawsuit was filed under the False Claims Act, the Justice Department said.
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The state legislature could do so simply by removing a single sentence from the existing False Claims Act so that tax fraud cases could be brought under that whistleblower law.
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On June 18, 2012, Justice filed a notice with the same federal court in Minnesota, declining this time to join Ellis, the second False Claims Act case against the city.
Schneiderman announced earlier this month that New York was joining a groundbreaking, whistleblower-initiated case against Sprint-Nextel Corp. for sales tax evasion, brought under the amended New York False Claims Act.
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Under the leadership of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, New York amended its False Claims Act to permit whistleblower-initiated tax fraud cases and is putting that law to use.
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Studies have shown that the False Claims Act, which rewards private citizens who report healthcare and other types of fraud against the government, has deterred many billions in potential frauds.
Since its legislature adopted the California False Claims Act in 1987, the state has recovered over a billion dollars as a result of cases initiated by whistleblowers, including some brought by my firm.
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Under the False Claims Act, if Armstrong and others are found to have violated the act, they could be on the hook for triple the amount of the total paid under the contract.
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By contrast, consider the False Claims Act (effective 1863), which permits private individuals not associated with the U.S. government to file claims against federal contractors and allege that they committed fraud against the government itself.
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The False Claims Act has delivered billions of dollars to the federal government and hundreds of millions to whistleblowers, a bargain considering how many additional regulators could have been employed without necessarily achieving nearly as much.
The Complaint alleges that AseraCare violated the False Claims Act when it misspent millions of taxpayer dollars intended for Medicare recipients who have a prognosis of six months or less to live and need hospice care.
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That includes an expansion of the False Claims Act that gives consumers an incentive to pick through old bills and see if their doctors have failed to return Medicare overcharges within 60 days, or recycle previously disclosed information as a lucrative whistleblower claim.
There are state statutes, state common law and the federal Lanham Act, which can be used to pursue claims of false endorsement.
Congress quickly acted with a new proposal, the Stolen Valor Act, which would make it a crime to lie about military service or make false claims about receiving military medals with the intent of benefiting from those claims.
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