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THE SIMPLE FACTSTM...QUI TAM refers to cases filed under the federal False Claims Act (or similar state statutes) by private citizens seeking to recover money for fraud on the U.S. government.
The federal False Claims Act allows private citizens - whistleblowers/relators - with knowledge of false claims and fraud to sue and recover damages and fines on behalf of the U.S. government for this fraud, and to monetarily participate in the recovery of the money for reporting and actively pursuing the the fraud.
The Federal False Claims Act is the tool used to fight, for example, health care fraud - Medicaid and Medicare fraud and defense contractor procurement fraud on the federal level.
In addition, many states have false claims acts that may also be used to recover money for fraud on the state government. The federal False Claims Act was enacted to help and encourage individuals - whistleblowers or relators - to step up and report any type of fraud perpetrated on the federal government or a state government.
Almost unbelievable, but true, is the amount of money that the government is defrauded out of each year. Incredibly, the citizens of the United States are defrauded out of billions (yes, billions with a “B”) and billions of dollars as a result of fraud committed against our federal government by unscrupulous individuals or companies. Some of the more common areas of our governments agencies wrought with fraud include: the Department of Health and Human Services (health care) and the Department of Defense (defense contractors/procurement).
For example, Health care and procurement fraud cases constituted about 79 percent of all qui tam cases filed between 1987 - 2005 and the total amount of money recovered as a result of these qui tam cases was in excess of $15,000,000,000 dollars. Whistleblowers share of the money recovered between 1987 and 2005 was in excess of $1,600,000,000 dollars.
Quite frankly, the simple factsTM about the amount of fraud being committed on our government, particularly in the health care and defense contractor procurement areas, by unscrupulous individuals or companies and the incredible amounts of money these individual and companies are reaping are unacceptable.
We are here to help you recover our government - federal or state - money from those individuals or companies that defrauded our government.
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