More Than $1 Billion Recovered by Justice Department in Fraud and False Claims in Fiscal Year 2008 (08-992)

DOJ press release 08-992 (10 Nov 2008) on FY2008 FCA recoveries: $1.34 billion total; more than $21 billion since 1986; almost 78% from qui tam suits; $198 million to relators; health care $1.12 billion; defence procurement $133 million; relator share rules; civil penalty of $5,500-$11,000 per claim (liability, not a reward rule, not recorded); $430 million to state Medicaid from three pharmaceutical settlements; fact sheet of 10 significant recoveries. Already in the data: 6 observations and 10 qui tam cases (Merck x2, Cephalon, Amerigroup, Kyphon, SIUH x2, St. Joseph's, Bechtel/PB, CVS Caremark). Added: 3 rules and the state Medicaid figure. Not cases (no qui tam link in the release): Lester E. Cox Medical Centers $60 million, Pratt & Whitney/PCC Airfoils $53 million, the SIUH resident-count ($35.7 million) and psychiatric-bed ($1.47 million) matters. "More than $640 million" from three named settlements is a sum of named settlements, not recorded. Decision 10 pass (2026-10-10): every named settlement, judgment and newly announced government suit not already in cases.csv added as a case with whistleblower_link=not_stated (the document does not tie it to a whistleblower): 4 cases (4 settlements). Amounts as printed (lower/upper bounds and global vs civil parts explained in notes); individuals only where named by the agency as parties. Added Cox and Pratt & Whitney/PCC Airfoils, plus SIUH's third ($35.7 million) and fourth ($1.47 million) matters: different settlements from the two SIUH qui tam settlements already recorded, so added although the target is the same.