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follows a trend of whistleblower programs that have been implemented by the federal government to address fraud

doctrine … bars recovery of payments voluntarily made with full knowledge of the facts, in the absence of fraud

looks at enforcements actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) that involve fraudulent

"FCA") is a federal law that prohibits businesses or individuals from knowingly submitting false or fraudulent an experienced attorney can help you understand and explore your options in blowing the whistle on fraud

, the author of numerous statutes that protect whistleblowers and incentivize them to report waste, fraud

They also help to prevent claims by one party to a contract that the other used fraud and deceit to induce 1062, 1064 (2d Dept. 2012) (“While a general merger clause is ineffective to exclude parol evidence of fraud Pate asserted claims of breach of contract against United and Alcentra, fraudulent inducement against The Court also dismissed the fraud in the inducement claims because of the merger clause, stating: “the parties from relying upon such agreements or representations to assert claims of breach of contract or fraudulent

in which the Court held that the limitations period set forth in Section 2462 begins to run when the fraud

alleging tortious interference with business relations, defamation, and violations of the Computer Fraud

These include: (1) “corruption, fraud, or misconduct in procuring the award”; (2) partiality of the arbitrator Corruption, Fraud, Or Misconduct in Procuring the Award: Under CPLR 7511(b)(1)(i), an arbitral award may be vacated or modified when the movant can demonstrate “corruption, fraud, or misconduct in procuring challenging an award on these grounds must establish through clear and convincing evidence that the fraud corruption was material to the proceeding such that the challenging party could not have discovered the fraud

“From its enactment, the FCA has encouraged private citizens to report fraud by promising a percentage that case, the plaintiff filed a qui tam action alleging, among other things, that a contractor had “fraudulently possibility that the government may use a relator’s information and pending lawsuit to seek a remedy for fraud but it corrupts the purpose of the reward provisions of the FCA – to encourage individuals to report fraud

for the United States and whistleblowers using the implied certification theory of liability to fight fraud

and not (as with SOX) to “disturb the ‘corporate code of silence’” and embolden employees to report fraudulent to improve SEC enforcement and facilitate the Commission’s “recover money for victims of financial fraud objective: It sought to disturb the “corporate code of silence” that “discourage employees from reporting fraudulent