{"id":11317,"date":"2017-12-22T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11317"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:58:35","slug":"false-claims-an-assertion-or-statement-that-is-untrue-especially-overbilling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11317","title":{"rendered":"False Claim -an assertion or statement that is untrue, especially overbilling"},"content":{"rendered":"

false claim<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(16c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An assertion or statement that is untrue, especially overbilling.<\/strong> [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

False Claims Act<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. A federal statute establishing civil and criminal penalties against persons who bill the government falsely, deliver less to the government than represented, or use a fake record to decrease an obligation to the government.\u00a0 18 USCA \u00a7\u00a7 286<\/a>–287<\/a>; 31 USCA \u00a7\u00a7 3729<\/a>–3733<\/a>.\u00a0 *\u00a0 The Act may be enforced either by the attorney general or by a private person in a qui tam action.<\/strong> \u2014 Abbr. FCA. \u2014 aka Lincoln Law<\/strong><\/span>. <\/em>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

false claims against the government<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Claims presented against the government and also allegations, as in income tax returns, which cause pecuniary or property loss to the government.\u00a0 Capone v United States<\/em> (CA7 1II) 51 F2d 609, 76 ALR 1534, cert den 284 US 669, 76 L Ed 566, 52 S Ct 44<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See false affidavit. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>with Pronunciations
\n<\/span><\/a><\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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