Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, Morrison Foerster provides key takeaways and discusses some of the most significant false claims topics.
In this third newsletter of 2025, we answer the following questions: What conclusions can we draw from the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent announcements creating a new healthcare fraud working group and a new specialized unit to target tariff evasion? What signals did DOJ send with its 2025 National Healthcare Fraud Takedown? What steps is DOJ taking to enforce its newly announced priorities under the FCA? The answers to this quarter’s questions—plus a discussion of the efforts of two states to expand FCA liability—are here in our MoFo July 2025 FCA Update.
DOJ & HHS Announce New FCA Healthcare Fraud Working Group. As first reported in a recent client alert, the Trump administration has demonstrated its commitment to using the FCA to prosecute healthcare fraud by standing up a new interagency False Claims Act Working Group meant to increase enforcement and interagency cooperation in this area. On July 2, 2025, DOJ & the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly announced that this Working Group will make it easier for HHS to refer suspected FCA violations to DOJ in target areas including (but not limited to): Medicare...
On social media platform X, a claim is going viral. An account named ‘TacticalTribun’ posted the viral claim on 1 August 2025. The user claimed “Khalistani sources say Sukhi chahal, an Indian RAW ...