Highlights of U.S. Department of Justice 2017 False Claims Act Satistics

Dear Readers:Happy New Year. As we come to the close of 2017, the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") recently issued its 2017 annual statistics for False Claims Act ("FCA") cases filed and settled in fiscal year 2017 (10/1/16 – 9/30/17). The DOJ's press release highlights many of the Department's achievements (which I will not repeat here). I wanted to take a few moments to focus further on what DOJ's statistics reveal.The DOJ publishes yearly statistics for FCA cases (i) overall ("the overview"); (ii) Department of Defense related cases; (iii) Department of Health and Human Services (healthcare) related cases; and (iv) all "other" FCA cases. DOJ "obtained"  –that does not mean collected — $3.7 billion in "in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government." DOJ does not say how much it actually netted in cash as opposed…

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