Justice Department Called to Target Virus-Related False Claims

March 17, 2020, 10:56 AM UTC

The DOJ is facing calls to investigate claims of health-care fraud related to the new coronavirus pandemic.

Special Team Warranted: The agency should create a new task force for probing False Claims Act allegations tied to Covid-19, the chairman of the National Whistleblower Center’s board of directors said in a letter to Attorney General William Barr.

See Something, Say Something: The False Claims Act gives frontline health-care workers the right to report when a provider manipulates money coming in to fight the outbreak, board chairman Stephen Kohn tells Lydia Wheeler.

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