2/02/2012

Is it really possible for a person to file a lawsuit on behalf of the governing body to recover money?

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By Rossiene Resch


Qui Tam is one of the provisions made by the False Claims Act. Qui tam is a completely unique concept in the legal system of US America. This provision authorizes voters on behalf of the country's central authority to file a suit against a firm or an individual that has used government funds fraudulently. Qui tam calls this voter a 'whistleblower'.

This provision of the law entitles the whistle blower to a share of a proportion of the government funds that've been recovered. Under the law, any person can act as a whistle blower. Company management and workers of an establishment that is guilty of dishonestly consuming govt funds, private citizens, sub contractors, public interest groups, as well as executive workers could be a whistle blower.

The wonderful thing about qui tam and the reason it is attracting so many cases of abuse of public funds is that whistleblowers are protected by the False Claims Act. If you've a whistle blowing case of your own, you ought to use a whistle blower consultant attorney to handle your case.

It was back in 1863 the Fed Fake Claims Act was passed so as to combat against defense contractors. Today the aforementioned Act may also include under its covers official agencies, programs and contractors. The Act did allow non-public voters to file legal actions against suspected people or enterprises at the beginning.

The reason few people came forward was because they had to finance the cases on their own. But now, after one or two amendments done to the first Act, whistleblowers are protected from retaliation, wrongful termination and persecution. It also imposes higher fines and penalties on the guilty parties helping the citizen financially to handle the case. What's more, qui tam laws also make the citizen entitled to have a proportion of the govt funds thus recovered.




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