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The historical antecedents of qui tam statutes lie in Roman and Anglo-Saxon law. [3] Roman criminal prosecutions were typically initiated by private citizens and beginning no later than the Lex Pedia, it became common for Roman criminal statutes to offer a portion of the defendant's forfeited property to the initiator of the prosecution as a reward. [3]
Relator Stevens, a former employee of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, brought a qui tam civil action against the agency, alleging that the state agency had submitted false claims to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in connection with federal grant programs the EPA administered. [3]
The qui tam rules are part of the False Claims Act, a Civil War-era law that was enacted in response to reports of wholesale plundering by suppliers of military goods and ammo to the War Department.
A qui tam (in the name of the king) action may be brought by any party (as a relator) against an entity that is fraudulently collecting money from the United States government by filing false claims. The party bringing the suit – the relator – must have possession of information substantiating the claim of fraud against the government.
But it was more than what she expected back in 2012, when the lawyers on both sides thought they had agreed on a $1.3 billion deal, of which $900 million would be for the false claims in her qui tam suit. Now, the false claims related to her suit were about $1.2 billion, and the whistleblowers were entitled to 15 percent.
The provision is narrowly defined, applying only to workers who took documents for the sole purpose of sharing them with their attorneys or a government agency. ... Young filed his qui tam case ...
intervene in one or more counts of the pending qui tam action. This intervention expresses the Government's intention to participate as a plaintiff in prosecuting that count of the complaint. The department intervenes in fewer than 25% of filed qui tam actions. decline to intervene in one or all counts of the pending qui tam action. If the ...
claims under the endangered species act and migratory bird treaty act and in opposition to the wampanoag tribe of gay head’s (aquinnah) motion for summary judgment case 1:10-cv-01067-rbw-dar document 212 filed 12/14/12 page 1 of 38