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Home / Blog General / Qui Tam Lawsuits Recover Billions for the Federal Government in FY 2015

Qui Tam Lawsuits Recover Billions for the Federal Government in FY 2015

January 9, 2016

2015 Qui Tam Lawsuit Recoveries - Behn & WyetznerQui tam whistleblowers who filed cases under the False Claims Act returned nearly $3 billion into the federal treasury in Fiscal Year 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

False Claims Act cases in the areas of health care, hospital services, mortgage and financial industries, and defense contracting account for the largest part of recoveries. Whistleblower awards during 2015 totaled $597 million.

“The False Claims Act has again proven to be the government’s most effective civil tool to ferret out fraud and return billions to taxpayer-funded programs,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.

A recent expansion of state-level False Claims Acts will provide state governments with similar tools to combat fraud in a myriad of state- and  municipal-funded programs.

These qui tam lawsuits are crucial to protecting the government fisc. Since January 2009, over $25 billion has been recovered under the False Claims Act. Kudos to whistleblowers and the Department of Justice for another stellar year.

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Daniel R. Hergott joined Behn & Wyetzner in May 2011, after graduating magna cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law. During law school, Mr. Hergott worked as an extern for The Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and as a clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois and the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Read more.

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