Is There FCA Risk in Your Public Data? DOJ Launches the “FOCUS” Initiative, Formalizing Engagement with Data Miner Relators
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (the “Department”) Civil Division recently announced a new anti-fraud initiative dubbed the Fraud Oversight through Careful Use of Statistics (FOCUS) initiative. FOCUS is designed to formalize the Department’s engagement with so-called “data miner” relators who file qui tam complaints under the False Claims Act (FCA). The announcement signals the Department’s intent to both leverage a fast-growing source of FCA litigation and discourage data-miner relators...
