Fraud By The Numbers Series
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Fraud By The Numbers 2023 – Sept. 4
The False Claims Act dates back to the Civil War. Since then, states have added their own laws and the federal government has created other programs—for instance, to encourage reporting of SEC violations, financial fraud, and tax fraud. The success of all of these efforts to enforce regulations and stop fraud, waste, and abuse depends…
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Fraud By The Numbers 2023 – Sept. 3
The good news is that pandemic-related supply chain constraints are easing and car sales are picking up. Not only is the fleet growing, it is diversifying, adding engine types (including hybrids and electric) and dropping drivers. With all this production, sales, and experimentation, it is reasonable to expect safety issues to arise. Precisely because of…
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Fraud By The Numbers 2023 – Sept. 2
Every year, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) releases its annual statistics on settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act. Behind these statistics are the hundreds of brave whistleblowers who have risked their careers and reputations to report fraud on the government—and who depend on the DOJ to investigate their allegations and prosecute…
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Fraud By The Numbers 2023 – Sept. 1
The Security and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Whistleblower Programs: More awards, more money recovered, more money returned to investors and more disclosures of fraud—It’s not an accident Today we begin our annual Fraud by the Numbers series with a look at the results obtained by the SEC and CFTC whistleblower programs.…
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Fraud By The Numbers 2023 – Introduction
Welcome to The Anti-Fraud Coalition’s Third Annual Fraud by the Numbers! This annual effort started as a COVID-era project to illustrate with real data how fraud impacts all of us. While a trillion dollars would have been an unfathomably large number a generation ago, we now routinely talk about annual government budgets approaching ten trillion dollars,…
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RELEASE: Dept. of Justice Stats Spotlight the Importance of Declined False Claims Act Whistleblower Cases
Over Half of the FY2022 Dollars Recovered Under the False Claims Act Were in Declined Qui Tam Actions Washington, DC — On February 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported its False Claims Act (FCA) statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2022. DOJ reported more than $2.2 billion was recovered from both settlements and…
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RELEASE: Fraud By The Numbers in 2022
Washington, DC — Fraud continues to have a massive impact on our economy, health care systems, and way of life. When corporate fraud drains billions of dollars from the financial markets, it steals more than dollars — it steals years of life from its victims. To the mastermind, the ill-gotten gains are a windfall; but…
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Fraud By The Numbers Sept. 30
For the last 30 days, we have explored the fraud schemes that siphon government dollars and undermine our financial markets. We have documented how incentivized whistleblower programs unmask the perpetrators of these frauds and recover billions of stolen dollars for the U.S. Treasury and the American people. We have discussed how whistleblowers effectively safeguard our prescription…
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Fraud By The Numbers Sept. 29
In October 1970, Lynn Anderson sang her way into country music stardom crooning, “I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden.” Anderson’s cover shot to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 by February 1971 and earned Anderson the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for 1970. For whistleblowers, there…
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Fraud By The Numbers Sept. 28
We talk a lot about False Claims Act recoveries for the United States as a whole. But we rarely look at where exactly the cases that lead to those recoveries are filed, and which U.S. Attorneys’ Offices in those districts are working with relators most frequently to deliver those results. To help answer those questions,…
