Varieties of misconduct risking FCA liability -- Government contracts : a regulated business relationship -- The enforcement community -- Qui tam relators -- Interplay between the False Claims Act and contractor ethics and compliance programs -- The decision to file suit -- The role of defendants in the DOJ's decision to file an FCA suit or to intervene in a Qui tam suit -- Threshold defenses -- Liability -- Evidence -- Remedies -- Other consequences -- Settlements under the False Claims Act -- Protecting the company -- Protecting the whistleblower.
Summary:
"In this book, the authors explore the relationship between federal procurement and the FCA. The chapters describe the regulated nature of government contracting and the players in the policy and enforcement communities who regulate and police government contracts. They also describe the complex process for initiating, litigating, and resolving FCA actions, and how those processes interact with the complexities of performing and closing out government contracts. In addition, they describe the substantive requirements and evolving evidentiary challenges of litigating a FCA case in a government contracts context. Finally, they describe possible modifications to the FCA that have the potential to improve compliance and reduce costs, as well as additional areas of likely FCA enforcement outside of the traditional realms of government contracts and government funded healthcare"--Publisher's website.
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