DOJ Brain Drain Hampers Push to Speed Benefits Fraud Lawsuits

This article features commentary from founding partner David K. Colapinto.

In this article, author Daniel Seiden of Bloomberg reports that the Justice Department staffing limitations threaten to undercut a new plan to expedite the assessment of whistleblower claims involving fraud against Medicaid and other government benefit programs.

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto’s founding partner David Colapinto says that “their [the DOJ’s] changes are well intended, but lack the resources to handle all the whistleblower cases.” Also saying that “Whistleblowers filed almost 1,300 FCA suits last year, DOJ said, which broke a record.” He also says that “the DOJ is facing a perfect storm of an increase in False Claims Act whistleblower complaints while at the same time it is losing experienced attorneys to handle those cases.”