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Whistleblowers win with False Claims Act
PBS NewsHour
Narrator PBS NewsHour
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Summary
Last year alone, the federal government and its whistleblowers -- people incentivized by the False Claims Act to expose fraud in companies that work with the government -- recovered nearly $6 billion in lawsuits that exposed wrongdoing. But some question whether the False Claims Act actually prevents fraud or merely incentivizes people with potential reward money. NewsHour's Rick Karr reports.
Duration: 9 minutes (00:08:37) Publishing date: 2014-12-21; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —
