The Whistleblower Legal Center is an internet resource provided by the Law Office of Tracy L. Netzel a law firm specializing in the representation of whistleblowers under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §3729 et seq.

In recent years, the FCA has fast become the government’s most potent weapon in the fight against fraud. This is so because the FCA contains qui tam provisions that incentivize private persons or “whistleblowers” to promptly report fraud and abuse by rewarding them up to 30% of the proceeds of the action. Without this public-private partnership, the extraordinary success of the FCA would not have been possible.

Here are just a few of the highlights:

• Since 1986, the government has recovered $12 billion under the FCA;
• Since 2001, just seven cases against pharmaceutical manufacturers have generated $1.6 billion;
• In 2003 alone, the government recovered $2.1 billion under the FCA, more than two-thirds of which were the result of cases initiated by whistleblowers;
• In 2003, whistleblowers received $319 million for their efforts in exposing fraud and abuse;
• 13 states and the District of Columbia have now enacted false claims legislation modeled at least in part after the FCA; and
• Every $1 invested by the government in the fight against health care fraud returns $13 to the American people.

The Law Office of Tracy L. Netzel represents whistleblowers in qui tam actions all across the country and in cases spanning the spectrum of fraud and abuse.