US Gets Bolder in Probing Companies for Defrauding Government

The Justice Department is more aggressively targeting companies that have fraudulently billed government agencies, expanding the volume and complexity of investigations that could be years away from producing results.

Big Law attorneys defending cases under the Civil War-era False Claims Act say enforcers are less sympathetic to pandemic-era concerns that penalties could drive health-care providers and other employers out of business. Justice Department attorneys, in collaboration with private whistleblowers who file most false claims litigation, are also pursuing sophisticated FCA cases that rely on advanced data analysis and novel legal theories while gaining leverage with the threat of parallel criminal ...