On February 7, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published information from Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 about settlements and judgments from the False Claims Act. In 2022, whistleblower lawsuits led to over $1.9 billion in recoveries, and qui tam whistleblowers won a combined total of $448 million.
The False Claims Act contains qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions that enable private citizens to file lawsuits alleging false claims on behalf of the government. If the government prevails in a qui tam lawsuit, the whistleblower can receive between 15 and 30 percent of the monies recovered.
The FY 2022 press release includes a link to a document of fraud statistics that records data from 1989-2022. The document contains information on the number of qui tam False Claims Act cases, the number of non-qui tam cases, if the U.S. intervenes in the qui tam cases, and total recoveries in all cases.
Whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn of Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto (KKC) expressed disappointment that the DOJ “recovered only $776 million in False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower cases in which it intervened, the lowest total since 2004. In contrast, FCA whistleblower cases where the DOJ did not intervene resulted in a record $1.1 billion in recoveries, according to statistics released by the DOJ on February 7,” according to a press release. In each qui tam case, the government has a chance to “intervene and take over the lawsuit. If the DOJ declines to intervene,...
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