2020 False Claims Act Recoveries Were Down By One-Third In 2020. . . And That’s Bad News For Federal Contractors
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/21
On January 14, 2021, the Department of Justice released its updated statistics for False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries in FY 2020. The Civil Division reported that it recovered $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments in the previous fiscal year—down nearly $900 million from FY 2019, and off nearly two-thirds from the government’s high-watermark collections of $6.1 billion in FY 2014. Although $2.2 billion in net FCA recoveries represents DOJ’s lowest FCA haul in a decade, it is still a...
By: McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts