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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]
The False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733, also called the "Lincoln Law") is an American federal law that was passed on March 2, 1863 during the American Civil War, that allows people who are not affiliated with the government to file actions against federal contractors claiming fraud against the government. The law represented an effort ...
The legal rule itself – how to apply this exception – is complicated, as it is often dependent on who said the statement and which actor it was directed towards. [6] The analysis is thus different if the government or a public figure is the target of the false statement (where the speech may get more protection) than a private individual who is being attacked over a matter of their private ...
The claim is false. A comment shared on the video indicates the clip is from 2016, meaning it predates Project 2025. “This clip is 8 years old. Project 2025 would not exist for another 6 years ...
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 ...
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
The claim: Obama ‘repealed’ law blocking government propaganda An Oct. 22 Facebook post ( direct link , archive link ) shows an image of former President Barack Obama signing a document in the ...
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 ...