Time To Toughen Anti Fraud Laws And Increase Monetary Rewards To Whistleblowers
By Joel Hesch
Nearly ten percent of government spending is lost due to fraud. Recent court cases have chipped away at the False Claims Act - the government’s main weapon to counter government fraud. Now is the time to toughen, not relax anti-fraud laws. Fortunately, there is a bipartisan effort to pass legislation to strengthen this important anti-fraud tool and increase the opportunity for citizens to obtain large rewards for reporting fraud.
Your luck doesn’t have to be so bad as the California man, who, in a series of unrelated events, was hit by a car on Sunday, mugged on Monday, and shot on Tuesday. But, if you lose your identity to a con man, your foul luck level could be close.
With a con man-launched barrage, stolen identities are rising at a rate of up to 10,000,000 per year, creating a problem that is now approaching crisis proportions.
If we were a fire-eating, Bible-thumping preacher, we would deliver our sermon something like quoting from a legal thriller, something like this:
