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  2. False Claims Act of 1863 - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, whistleblowers filed over 700 False Claims Act lawsuits. [21] In the same year, the Department of Justice achieved its highest annual recovery in False Claims Act history, obtaining more than $6.1 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government. [4]

  3. False statements of fact - Wikipedia

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    Telemarketing Associates, Inc. (2003), the Court upheld an Illinois telemarketing anti-fraud law against claims that it was a form of prior restraint, affirming consumer protection against misrepresentation was a valid government interest justifying a free speech exception for false claims made in that context. [27] The 2012 decision United ...

  4. Making false statements - Wikipedia

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    Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, [1] even by merely ...

  5. False, misleading claims about Donald Trump surge as ... - AOL

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    Now, with less than a week to go until Election Day, social media users have continued to share misinformation about Trump, from altered images and fake posts to false claims about his court cases ...

  6. Debunking false, misleading claims about President-elect ...

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    Throughout the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump was both a subject and spreader of a variety of false claims. In the final stages of the campaign that has now led Trump back to ...

  7. Fact check: Trump makes at least 11 false claims in foreign ...

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    Former President Donald Trump did a Monday interview focused on foreign policy. And he repeated a bunch of his regular false claims on that subject and others – while sprinkling in some new ...

  8. False accusation - Wikipedia

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    A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts. [1] False accusations are also known as groundless accusations or unfounded accusations or false allegations or false claims. They can occur in any of the following contexts: Informally in everyday life; Quasi-judicially; Judicially

  9. Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 - Wikipedia

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    The amended subsection (a) of 31 U.S.C. § 3729 effectively reverses the Allison Engine decision, weakening the requirement to "a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim", where a claim includes "any request or demand" related to a government program and which will be paid from funds supplied by the government. [14] [15]