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False Claims Act Update & Alert |
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Taxpayers
Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
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State FCA Acts The Office of the Inspector General of Health and Human Services has sent a letter to 10 states letting seven of them know that their current False Claims Act laws do not qualify for an increased share of Federal settlement dollars under the Deficit Reduction Act. The seven states that have non-DRA qualifying False Claims Acts are: California, Florida, Louisiana, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, and Texas. The three states with DRA-qualifying state False Claims Acts are Illinois, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. >> To read more |
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 Cuomo on
the False Claims Act
In an editorial in The
Albany Times Union, New York Attorney General Andrew
Cuomo writes that New York's failure to pass a state
False Claims Act will cost the state many millions
of dollars and that "Albany's inaction has
persisted despite bipartisan support and mountains of
evidence that in the war against fraud, whistle-blowers
are the state's strongest ally." >>
To read more |
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 FCA Lawsuit Against Sovereign The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit against Sovereign Bancorp and three venture capital investors who are accused of defrauding the Small Business Administration for $32 million in a scheme in which Main Street Bank, now a Sovereign subsidiary, lied about the amount of capital the Acorn Technology Fund had on hand. >> To read more |
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 DoJ
Statistics for FY 2006The U.S. Department of Justice has released its tally for FY 2006 False Claims Act recoveries. Taxpayers Against Fraud and the DoJ have virtually identical total recovery numbers for FY 2006 despite using different arithmetic. The major difference appears to be that DoJ is not counting the Schering-Plough case, apparently because there is still a dispute as to relator share, and DoJ is counting the Boeing case, even though Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty had previously suggested it was more of a Procurement Integrity Act case. >> For the latest DoJ Stats |
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 Texas
Joins Risperdal SuitThe state of Texas has joined a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that Johnson & Johnson and related companies, including Janssen Pharmaceutical, made improper payments to a state official who, in turn, duped the state of Texas into spending millions of dollars on expensive psychiatric drugs, including Risperdal. >> To read more |
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