Originally published by the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Tuesday August 30, 2013
The qui tam provisions of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) encourage private individuals to bring suit on behalf of the U.S. in order to redress fraud against the government. The FCA is a powerful and increasingly popular tool in the hands of both the government and the plaintiffs' bar. Should they prevail, the private plaintiffs in these suits, known as relators, receive a percentage of the government's recovery both as a reward for their "blowing the whistle" as an insider and as an incentive to other potential whistle-blowers to alert the government to fraud.
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