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Government Auditor as Relator Under the False Claims Act: Dr. Jekyll One Day, Mr. Hyde the Next
Government Auditor as Relator Under the False Claims Act: Dr. Jekyll One Day, Mr. Hyde the Next
Originally published at the 7th Annual Energy Litigation Conference of the Institute for Energy Law, October 2008
By Marie Yeates, Abbie Giraud, and Spikes Kangera
The False Claims Act (FCA) allows private individuals to assert fraud claims on behalf of the United States and, under certain circumstances, share in the federal government's recovery. Not infrequently, federal employees have brought such claims for their own benefit based on information learned on the job. Such use of the FCA raises serious public policy concerns where the relator is a federal auditor paid by the federal government and who has specific job duties to identify, ferret out, investigate, and disclose fraud against the federal government. Read the entire article here.
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