False Claims Act Update & Alert
Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | WWW.TAF.ORG October 17, 2006
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			Oracle to Pay U.S. $98 million Oracle has agreed to pay the U.S. government $98.5 million to settle charges that PeopleSoft provided false pricing information to obtain a federal contract. The settlement is the largest settlement ever related to a General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule program, which requires vendors to provide commercial pricing information to the government in exchange for the ability to strike deals with hundreds of federal agencies under a single contract. The Justice Department said PeopleSoft's disclosures "were not current, accurate and complete." >> To read more
			$33 Million and 59 Years Lourdes "Lulu" Perez faces up to 59 years in federal prison, and must pay the federal government $33.8 million to settle one of the largest Medicare fraud cases in California history.  Perez fleeced about $40 million from U.S. taxpayers through a Medicare "bill mill" in which recruiters were paid up to $400 per enrolled patient, many of which needed no services at all.  >> To read more
			Feds Focus on Procurement Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty has announced a new procurement fraud task force, to include investigators from at least 20 federal agencies. The announcement comes prior to an expected shutdown, within a year, of the Iraq Inspector General's office which has referred 25 cases to the U.S. Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.  Roughly 89 criminal investigations remain open. >> To read more
			$19 Billion and Counting Total False Claims Act recoveries since the 1986 amendments are now over $19 billion, with more than $3.142 billion recovered in FY 2006, and more than $250 million in civil penalties recovered in the first month of FY 2007.  These figures do not include more than $200 million in settlements announced by companies but not get green-lighted by DoJ.