Protection for the Qui Tam Whistleblower Complainant
The Fed Fake Claims Act can offer protection for any employee who has been retaliated against by their employer, supervisor or work colleague because of their whistleblowing actions. If the employee has their employment cancelled or postponed, or are demoted, harassed or threatened in any fashion then they are entitled to benefits. If they are fired then they can be reinstated with double the amount of salary that they lost whilst they were fired. This also equates to being suspended. If the employee is discriminated against, then they can file for damages against the guilty party to cover any emotional trauma that they may have experienced whilst going thru the ordeal.
As you can see, the Qui Tam provision gives folks great motivations to report fraud that has been committed, or is being committed, on the govt. by an individual or company. While the fake claims act comes down hard on individuals who commit an offense, it also makes corporations more open and transparent about their dealings.
History of the Fed. Fake Claims Act
It’s fascinating to find out how this act arose. During the American Civil war that waged between 1861 and 1865 fraud in both the Union north and the Confederate south was rife. Sneaky business owners sold both the Unionists and the Confederates horses and mules that were in bad shape and in illness, bad ammunition and defective rifles and rancid provisions. These acts deceived both parties out of millions of bucks and doubtless lengthened the war and indeed the suffering by one or two years. As a direct reaction to this fiasco, congress passed the False Claim Act.
Areas Covered by the Fake Claims Act
The False Claim Act has been put into action to frustrate cases of fraud against the govt. in numerous areas including though not limited to:
– defense buying
– Medicaid/Medicare
– Housing and Urban Development (HUD) fraud committed by contractors of federally subsidized housing education
– social security
– welfare benefits and
– any procurements made by central authority departments
– TARP funds
– shovel-ready projects
Types of False Claims
There are many sorts of actions which are covered by the Fed. Fake Claims Act. They include:
– off label promoting by pharmaceutical corporations and reps
– providing bribes or deductions
– billing for services or products never provided or altogether fabricated
– faking records to make claims
– collusive bidding
– reverse fake claims (failure to return cash wrongly paid)
– best price
– misrepresenting authentications of testing and compliance requirements
– falsified time slips
– falsifying quality or amount of goods and services.
How False Claim Act helps one in reporting Medicare fraud? Read on the text of Zakarias Norris relating to the incentives to report any fraud committed against the govt..
