The False Claims Act's qui tam provisions allow insiders to file suit on the government's behalf and receive 15–30% of whatever is recovered.
Submit Your ClaimYour suit is filed confidentially. The defendant has no knowledge of the case while the Department of Justice investigates on the government's behalf.
Federal agencies review your information. If the government intervenes, they lead prosecution while your legal counsel remains a party to the case.
Relators receive 15–30% of the government's recovery. In major institutional fraud cases, that share reaches into the tens of millions.
Systematic Medicare and Medicaid overbilling, institutional kickbacks, off-label marketing programs, and large-scale false claims against government healthcare programs.
Institutional overbilling on federal contracts, defective equipment delivered to military programs, and organized failure to meet contract specifications.
False Claims Act violations involving bid rigging, systemic procurement fraud, and Small Business set-aside abuse by large federal contractors.
Falsified data in federally funded research, misuse of NIH or NSF grant funds, and institutional misconduct in grant reporting to federal agencies.
False certification for Title IV federal student aid, predatory institutions misrepresenting outcomes to the Department of Education to maintain funding eligibility.
Organized import violations, institutional duty evasion, and systematic false country-of-origin schemes defrauding U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The False Claims Act has recovered over $75 billion for the U.S. government since 1986. Whistleblowers have driven more than 70% of those recoveries.
For institutional fraud claims exceeding $1M in estimated damages