Description: The first blog dedicated to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and to qui tam litigation in Virginia
Russian tank destroyed by Ukrainians when it ran out of gas
As this blog has discussed before , people tend to get distracted by the (sometimes) enormous sums of money the United States recovers using the federal False Claims Act. While this is understandable — and certainly the money is important and the government itself likes to do press releases about the total amount of money it recovers each year — it is important to stop every so often and look at the real importance of the federal FCA, which in my opinion has little or nothing to do with money.
In the opinion of this writer, the main purpose of the federal False Claims Act is limiting corruption in the United States, and preventing corruption from becoming part of American culture. The on-going war in Ukraine shows clearly why this is an important objective. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has faltered for many reasons, but chief among them is the simple fact that the Russian Army is — like Russian society — corrupt at every level.