Whistleblowers win with False Claims Act

Whistleblowers win with False Claims Act

PBS NewsHour

InläsarePBS NewsHour
Längd8 min
Språken
FörlagNewsHour Productions
ISBN9781987108286

Last year alone, the federal government and its whistleblowers -- people incentivized by the False Claims Act to expose fraud in companies that work with the government -- recovered nearly $6 billion in lawsuits that exposed wrongdoing. But some question whether the False Claims Act actually prevents fraud or merely incentivizes people with potential reward money. NewsHour's Rick Karr reports.