In a press release, the Justice Department announced that it secured $3.8 billion in settlements and judgments from False Claims Act cases during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. That’s a decrease from last fiscal year’s record-setting haul of $4.9 billion, but it’s still the second largest annual amount.
According to the DOJ, 86 percent of that $3.8 billion came from cases brought under the FCA’s qui tam provisions, which allow whistleblowers to receive up to 30 percent of a recovery. The agency didn’t reveal how much it paid to whistleblowers.
