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Selected FCA recoveries · 2014–2025

What the statute
has returned.

Since the 1986 amendments that reinvigorated the False Claims Act, the federal government has recovered more than $85 billion under the statute — the large majority of it from qui tam cases brought by private whistleblowers. Fiscal year 2025 alone produced $6.8 billion in recoveries, a single-year record, and a record 1,297 new qui tam suits. The ledger below is a selection of the cases that shaped the modern enforcement landscape.

Pharmaceutical & healthcare

Where the largest settlements have landed.

2022
Biogen Inc.
Anti-Kickback Statute / Speaker Programs
$900M
2020
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Kickbacks to Physicians via Speaker Bureau
$678M
2020
Purdue Pharma L.P.
Opioid Marketing Fraud
$2.8B
2019
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc
Suboxone Marketing / Medicaid Rebate
$1.4B
2019
Insys Therapeutics
Subsys Fentanyl Kickback Scheme
$225M
2018
AmerisourceBergen
Adulterated Drug Repackaging
$625M
2017
Mylan Inc.
EpiPen Medicaid Rebate Misclassification
$465M
2016
Pfizer / Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Medicaid Best-Price Violations (Protonix)
$784M
2015
DaVita Healthcare Partners
Anti-Kickback Statute Violations
$450M

Defense & government contracting

The sector the statute was written for.

2023
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Cost Mischarging on Government Contracts
$377.5M
2022
Raytheon Technologies
Defective Pricing / TINA Violations
$290M
2019
L3Harris Technologies
Night Vision Goggle Defects
$50M
2015
Lockheed Martin
Sandia Corporation Lobbying Costs
$4.79M

Medicare Advantage & managed care

The fastest-growing enforcement area.

2025
Cigna Group (Medicare Advantage)
Risk-Score Inflation
$172M
2023
Martin's Point Health Care
Medicare Advantage Upcoding
$22.5M
2021
Sutter Health
Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment
$90M

Financial services

FIRREA and FHA-driven recoveries.

2016
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
FHA Mortgage Origination Fraud
$1.2B
2014
Bank of America
RMBS / FHA Origination
$16.65B
2014
JPMorgan Chase
FHA & VA Loan Origination
$614M

Pandemic-era recoveries

The wave that is still cresting.

The Department of Justice has announced more than 250 pandemic-fraud civil settlements and judgments, totaling over $250 million, with hundreds of additional matters pending. These are representative — not comprehensive — and the category is expanding every quarter.

2024
Booz Allen (PPP / ERC category)
Pandemic Relief Fund Misuse
—
2023
Various — PPP forgiveness settlements
False Certification on Forgiveness
$—
2023
Provider Relief Fund settlements (multiple)
Misuse of HHS CARES Act Funds
$—

The entries in this section are placeholders for ongoing matters where specific settlement amounts are either sealed, not yet final, or part of aggregate DOJ reporting rather than single named settlements. This ledger will be updated as matters resolve. The ledger as a whole is provided for informational purposes; none of these matters were handled by this firm. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.

The relator share is real

On every one of these recoveries, a whistleblower received between 15% and 30%.

On a $900 million settlement at the statutory midpoint, the relator share lands near $200 million. Even the smallest cases on this ledger carry seven-figure relator shares at the low end of the statutory range. The range is 15–30% under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(d); the number within that range depends on the quality of the information, the extent of the relator's contribution, and whether the government intervened.

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