Department of Justice announces $2.8 billion in fraud recoveries for fiscal year 2018; down 25% from 2017

On December 21, the Department of Justice announced that during 2018, it had recovered more than $2.8 billion under the False Claims Act. This total was approximately 25% lower than in the prior fiscal year, and breaks a long string of increasing fraud recoveries. According to DOJ’s press release: The Department of Justice obtained more than $2.8 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio and Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division announced today.  Recoveries since 1986, when Congress substantially strengthened the civil False Claims Act, now total more than $59 billion. “Every year, the submission of false claims to the government cheats the American taxpayer out of billions of dollars,” said Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General…

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