Archive for July, 2016
Jul 1, 2016

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln pushed the first federal whistleblower statute through Congress. The False Claims Act (“FCA”), otherwise known as “Lincoln’s Law,’’ contained whistleblower, a.k.a. “qui tam” provisions that authorized private citizens to sue (on behalf of the government) companies and individuals that were defrauding the government. The Latin phrase, “qui tam pro domino […]