The Department of Justice released its annual report of civil recoveries for fraud and false claims against the U.S., showing $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments for the fiscal year ending September 2022. The data released by DOJ show the critical role that whistleblowers play in securing these recoveries for the government: of the $2.2 billion recovered, $1.96 billion – 89% – was recovered in cases initiated by whistleblowers under the False Claims Act. This 89% whistleblower rate is significantly above the 76% average in the same time period.
Even more notably, over half of the total was recovered by whistleblowers in cases where the government declined to intervene, and the whistleblowers pursued recoveries on their own. Let’s say that again: over half of the total recoveries were in cases that the government chose not to litigate.
In announcing the results, DOJ touted that they were achieved in 351 different resolutions, “the second highest number of settlements and judgments in a single year.” This seems like an impressive number – nearly one a day! – and surely represents a huge amount of work by dedicated DOJ attorneys. However, $2.2 billion in recoveries represents the lowest reported DOJ recoveries since 2008 – and over half of those recoveries were in non-intervened cases.
Nevertheless, despite the lower recoveries, it is important that cases are reaching resolution – particularly as new qui tam filings recovered some from a dip last year, with a particular...
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