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During a question-and-answer session following his opening
remarks at the Federal Bar Association Qui Tam Conference earlier
this year, Senator Chuck Grassley said that the government needed
to come down with a sledgehammer, not a toothpick
against fraud.
1 Senator Grassley, a co-sponsor of the
1986 Amendments to the federal False Claims Act (FCA or the Act)
and a longtime proponent of the Act and its qui tam provision, also
weighed in on some timely and controversial aspects of FCA
litigation, including the ability of the Department of Justice