WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Parties on both sides of False Claims Act cases tend to agree that the number of lawsuits and amount of money they redistribute to the U.S. government has significantly increased since the statute was amended in 1986.
Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies in Washington, D.C., contends that Congress has been pressured not to rein in the anti-fraud law, but instead, find ways to widen its scope.
“In recent years, you’ve seen some pushback from the business community, but given the record of congressional expansion ...
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Defense getting better at handling False Claims while DOJ short on staff, experts say
