Honest Abe Would Demand “Objective Falsity” For FCA Liability. Will The Supreme Court?
By EsqSocial Corporation 02/11/20
When Abraham Lincoln signed the False Claims Act (FCA) into law in 1863, it was a legislative reaction to a series of sensational congressional investigations into war profiteers’ sale of phony provisions and useless equipment to the U.S. government during the Civil War. Contractors who agreed to provide 100-pound bags of flour filled many of the bags with sand. Munitions suppliers demanded full payment (at exorbitant, wartime prices) for rusted, nonfunctioning weapons gleaned from scrap...
By: McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts