By: Jeffrey M. Haber Perpetrating a fraud on the government is a serious problem. It has economic and life-threatening consequences (e.g., increasing costs to taxpayers, and providing defective bulletproof vests to the military). Congress and the states have passed many laws to end fraud on the government. Chief among these is the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and the state analogues. The FCA imposes liability on persons and companies who defraud the government and protects and re