DOJ Self-Disclosure and Cooperation Credit

Posted on April 7, 2020 in FCA

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The DOJ’s recent revisions to its Justice Manual created a new path for self-disclosing potential fraud to the government – one which is unique in its ability to defray the costs of potential False Claims Act violations. In 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates released a memo entitled Individual Accountability for... Continue Reading →

Tags: False Claims Act, FCA, self-disclosure

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Self-Disclosure, the Public Disclosure Bar and the FCA – Uncertainty, Circuit by Circuit

Posted on February 11, 2015 in Case Analysis, Legal Updates, Litigation Handbook, Public Disclosure Bar

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Written by David B. Honig and Ritu Kaur Cooper. On February 3, 2015, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that disclosures to the public officials responsible for managing the subject of a False Claims Act lawsuit did not qualify as “public disclosures” for the purpose of the FCA’s public disclosure bar. US... Continue Reading →

Tags: audit, Bank of Farmington, compliance, David B. Honig, False Claims Act, FCA, Graham County, original source, public disclosure, qui tam, Rita Kaur Cooper, self-disclosure, whistleblower

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