The federal False Claims Act (FCA) has been an extraordinary tool for recovering taxpayer funds fraudulently acquired by unscrupulous actors and government contractors. State legislators have followed suit, enacting state-level [...]
It is important to hire competent False Claims Act counsel to protect you from employer retaliation. The Federal False Claims Act and those states that have passed state-level FCA [...]
Fraud Against Medicare Beneficiaries Likely Due to Vulnerability Unfortunately in times of crisis, there are predators looking for opportunities to benefit. The Department of Justice announced this week that it has [...]
For-profit colleges may defraud federal education programs It has been quite a summer, here at Bracker & Marcus LLC. We kicked things off with a nice False Claims Act settlement [...]
“Speaker programs are a widely used marketing tool in the pharmaceutical business. Drug makers enlist doctors to give paid talks about the benefits of a product to other potential prescribers, [...]
Of course, since you are asking a lawyer when you need a lawyer, I am going to tell you “as soon as possible”! But really, there are many reasons why [...]
How do I prepare? We will have a preparation session with you, telephonically or in person, where we will review the type of things discussed in this blog series (but [...]
Think of the Relator’s Interview as a big job interview, the kind with a whole panel of people who will ask questions. Most of the time, there will be one [...]
As we mentioned in Part I of this series, the Government will staff your case after it is served. There will be an assigned Department of Justice (“DOJ”) attorney from [...]
There are three things that the Government will want to do during the Relator’s Interview, and all of them are important. First, as we already mentioned in Part I of [...]
