FCA News: The U.S. Justice Department announced that it secured $4.9 billion in False Claims Act recoveries in civil cases involving fraud against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2012, according to Tony West, Acting Associate Attorney General, and Stuart F. Delery, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. DOJ noted that this figure constitutes a record recovery for a single year, eclipsing the previous record by more than $1.7 billion, and brings total recoveries under the False Claims Act since January 2009 to $13.3 billion – which is the largest four-year total in the Justice Department’s history and more than a third of total recoveries since the act was amended 26 years ago in 1986.
