McCormick
12:32 - 13:23
"Last fiscal year, the Department of Justice recovered $6.8 billion through False Claims Act settlements and judgments, marking the highest single-year total in the law's 160-year history. Nearly 1,300 of those cases were brought not by the government authorities, or the auditors, but by whistleblowers who came forward on their own, accounting for more than $5.3 billion of that recovery."
“Last fiscal year, the Department of Justice recovered $6.8 billion through False Claims Act settlements and judgments, marking the highest single-year total in the law's 160-year history. Nearly 1,300 of those cases were brought not by the government authorities, or the auditors, but by whistleblowers who came forward on their own, accounting for more than $5.3 billion of that recovery.”
- Speaker
- McCormick
- Timestamp
- 12:32 – 13:23
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 24, 2026
From the transcript
Last fiscal year, the Department of Justice recovered $6.8 billion through False Claims Act settlements and judgments, marking the highest single-year total in the law's 160-year history. Nearly 1,300 of those cases were brought not by the government authorities, or the auditors, but by whistleblowers who came forward on their own, accounting for more than $5.3 billion of that recovery. That tells us something important. The misconduct— of the misconduct that exists right now, it's with so much other fraud out there, uh, discovered lately the same way. It's the civilian that's protecting us even more than the government from ourselves and our fraudulent misbehavior.
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