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While serving as Assistant Attorney General under the first President Bush, William Barr took aim at the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. Stephen Kohn Now President Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee, Barr stood alone among top Justice Department officials...

Attorney General nominee William Barr this morning committed to "diligently uphold" the False Claims Act during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination. Under questioning from Sen. Chuck Grassley, Barr said the constitutionality of the law has been upheld...

Is the False Claims Act an “abomination”? Are whistleblowers “bounty hunters”? That’s what Attorney General nominee William Barr said during in a 2001 interview conducted at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Now, a group of advocates, academics and attorneys...

Despite Slowdown in Prosecution, Whistleblowers Continue to Play the Critical Role in Detecting Fraud. In statistics published this week by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. government's recoveries under the False Claims Act ("FCA") hit their lowest mark since 2008,...

In a new Trailblazers podcast episode titled Forensics: Who’s on the case, Walter Isaacson delves deep into the history of forensic fraud cases. The show details three stories of victims wrongly accused by criminal investigators and faulty forensic practices. What does...

Whistleblower on CBS show On Friday, August 31, CBS News will air a segment featuring biofuels fraud whistleblower, Alex "Sasha" Chepurko on the season finale of Whistleblower.  The episode, Case of “THE 100 Million Dollar Scam”, details Chepurko's incredible story of blowing the whistle on a...

Tonight, CBS News will air a special one hour broadcast on Dr. Aaron Westrick, the whistleblower who exposed unsafe bullet proof vests sold to hundreds of local police departments, the U.S. military and Secret Service.  The show, Whistleblower, will highlight...

In a recent interview with the AARP, Attorney General Sessions took a strong stance against Medicare fraud and empowering Medicare whistleblowers. Sessions stated that it’s time to consider taking Medicare fraud as seriously as the war on drugs (certainly an issue Attorney General Sessions...

Attorney General Sessions Condemns Companies That Sell Defective Equipment to First Responders The U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release late today announcing a settlement in a 13-year long False Claims Act case. Toyobo Co. Ltd. of Japan and its...

A January 10th memo released by the Department of Justice states that attorneys should consider dismissing "meritless" and "parasitic" whistleblower cases filed under the False Claims Act (FCA). The FCA allows citizens to sue on the government's behalf, should they report evidence of waste,...