Gain a better understanding of how the false claims act may impact your nonprofit.
Under Federal and State False Claims Acts, private whistleblowers bring 600 law suits each year which remain under Court Ordered seal while the Department of Justice and relevant federal and state agencies conduct investigations. Each year, a new crop of those suits are unsealed and each year some of those that have been investigated, and litigated, return billions of dollars to the federal and state treasuries.
Who can be liable under Federal and State False Claims Acts? Liability can be imposed on any person or entity that directly or indirectly does business with the government or is a beneficiary of government dollars. When imposing liability, the law does not distinguish between large publically traded for profit corporations and not-for-profit entities. Liability does not stop with the entity itself. Any individual or firm that works with not-for-profits and supplies or prepares documents that are submitted to the government in furtherance of funding face potential liability.
This topic is for those who seek to understand their exposure under the False Claims Acts and those individuals or entities that seek to pursue claims and benefit from the laws’ bounty provisions which can range between 15% and 30% of the recovery. Of course for those on the receiving end of a False Claims Act Case, liability can lead to the imposition of treble actual damages plus civil penalties for each false claim that can well exceed $11,000 per claim.
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Faculty
Bill Nettles
Bill Nettles Attorney at Law
- Founding attorney of Bill Nettles Attorney at Law
- Is experienced in a wide range of case types, he understands both state and federal criminal procedures
- Significant experience with False Claims Act whistleblower cases; he can help you navigate the difficult legal terrain you're facing as a whistleblower
- Was the longest serving US attorney since the 1960's, ensuring he had an extraordinary impact on the personnel and the policies of that important office
- J.D. degree, Widener University School of Law; graduate, The Citadel
Reuben Guttman
Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC
- Founding member of Guttman, Buschner & Brooks, PLLC where his practice involves civil rights, whistle-blowers, class actions, and complex litigation
- The International Business Times has referred to him as “one of the world’s most prominent whistle-blower attorneys; citing “wins recouping billions of dollars for the federal and state governments,” the Boston Globe’s STAT News referred to him as the “The Lawyer Pharma Loves to Hate”
- Represented workers, unions, and pension funds in complex litigation and for over a decade served as the chief outside counsel to the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers in a series of labor and environmental cases that enhanced safety and environmental conditions at Manhattan Project nuclear weapons sites while driving dread disease compensation legislation for nuclear weapons workers across the nation
- In 2020, serving as lead counsel in a federal class action lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Corrections, he secured a consent order mandating Hepatitis C testing and treatment for 17,000 inmates
- Has been an adjunct professor at Emory Law School and a Senior Fellow at Emory Law’s Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, and he is a Founder and Senior Advisor to the Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review (ECGAR); professorial lecturer at the American University School of Public Affairs where he teaches equal protection
- Taught trial advocacy and complex case investigations in the United States, China, and Mexico, and he has co-authored three case files, two published by Emory Law and one published by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, where he has been a faculty member
- Written or co-authored more than 100 articles or opinion pieces and multiple book chapters; his article, Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States; a Confluence of Influences, was translated and published in Mandarin in the Peking University Public Interest Law Journal, Vol 1, Page 187 (2010); he is co-author (with J.C. Lore III of Rutgers Law) of the book, Pretrial Advocacy (Wolters Kluwer Spring, 2021); he is a chapter co-author (with Traci Buschner) and wrote the introduction for Remote Advocacy: A Guide to Survive and Thrive (Wolters Kluwer and National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 2020)
- A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society (ACS), where he is currently a member of the ACS Board of Advisors
- Founder of www.whistleblowerlaws.com
- He began his legal career as a Washington, D.C. counsel for the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO where he served for five years
- J.D. degree, Emory University; B.A. degree in American history, University of Rochester
- Can be contacted at [email protected]
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