False Claims Act News

Washington, D.C. October 27, 2016.  Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the 1986 amendments to the federal False Claims Act (FCA). Since these amendments were passed, the FCA has proven to be the most effective anti-fraud law in the United States, recovering over $48 billion from those who defrauded the U.S. government. The FCA, enacted 1863, was […]

In 2012, Bradley Birkenfeld made history when he obtained the largest whistleblower reward ever given to an individual whistleblower in the twenty-five year history of federal qui tam or whistleblower reward laws, for reporting IRS Tax Fraud. This month the former international banker and wealth manager with UBS, released the book Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy. Lucifer’s Banker chronicles […]

The Impact of Qui Tam on Internal Compliance National Whistleblower Center Report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2010 Proposed Rule Changes by SEC On November 3, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published its Proposed Rules for Implementing the Whistleblower Provisions of Section 21F of the Securities and Exchange Act of […]