The False Claims Act lets employees, contractors, and auditors file suit on the government's behalf. A successful relator can receive 15–30% of the government's recovery.
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 typically receive 15–30% of the government's recovery. In major institutional fraud cases, that share has reached tens of millions of dollars. (31 U.S.C. § 3730(d); DOJ, 2010)
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.
Collusion among contractors, coordinated pricing, and rigged bidding on government contract awards that convert into false claims for payment under the False Claims Act.
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.
False Claims Act settlements and judgments have returned more than $85 billion to the U.S. government since 1986. Whistleblower-filed cases account for more than 70% of that total.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Fraud Statistics, FY1987–FY2025
For institutional fraud claims exceeding $1M in estimated damages
This intake only handles reports from insiders about fraud by an organization, so we are not the right fit for this matter. The agencies below accept reports like yours directly.