{"id":16252,"date":"2019-11-05T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/?p=16252"},"modified":"2025-05-26T06:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:20:40","slug":"the-false-claims-act-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/?p=16252","title":{"rendered":"The False Claims Act: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow-What A Long Strange Trip It&#8217;s Been-Part II-Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/nichols.law\/professionals\/bob-rhoad\/\">Robert Rhoad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read our second installment of the FCA Series here, which carries the baton forward to the present, with a focus on major legislative and judicial developments that have made the FCA what it is today\u2014one of the Government\u2019s most potent fraud-fighting weapons at its disposal.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of a\u00a0 three-part retrospective series by Bob Rhoad published in Feature Comments in The Government Contractor on the False Claims Act, which has been occasioned by this year\u2019s 10th anniversary of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act and the third anniversary of the Supreme Court\u2019s Escobar decision. The <a href=\"https:\/\/nichols.law\/the-false-claims-act-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been-part-i\/\">first installment<\/a> of the series, entitled \u201cThe False Claims Act: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,\u201d focused on the history and origins of the False Claims Act from the Civil War to the 1986 Amendments to the turn of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-2\"><iframe id=\"wppdf-emb-iframe-2\" scrolling=\"no\" data-pdf-index=\"2\" class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen\" style=\"border: none; width:100%; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1000px;\" src=\"https:\/\/nichols.law?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnichols.law%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F11%2FTGC61-39-309.pdf&pdfID=2&index=2\" ><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Rhoad You can read our second installment of the FCA Series here, which carries the baton forward to the present, with a focus on major legislative and judicial developments that have made the FCA what it is today\u2014one of the Government\u2019s most potent fraud-fighting weapons at its disposal. This is part of a\u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-false-claims-act-litigation","9":"with-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichols.law\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}