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Enacted 150 years ago to help whistle-blowers bring crooked government contractors to justice, the False Claims Act is one of America's most important -- and least known -- public-interest laws. Giantkillers tells the dramatic and inspiring behind-the-scenes story of how crusading publicinterest attorney John Phillips revitalized this ailing law after it had been gutted by lobbyists and left for dead. During the 1980s, in response to massive fraud by corporate Goliaths such as Columbia/HCA, Smith Barney, and General Electric, Phillips took on a dramatic, high-stakes battle. Forging an unlikely alliance with a conservative senator and liberal congressman, it helped recraft the False Claims Act to give whistle-blowers the power to sue corrupt contractors on the government's behalf and receive up to 30 percent of the judgment. Since then, The Wall Street Journal says that no other lawyer has done as much to help the government expose fraud.<p>Although corporate abuse receives front-page, prime-time coverage, few people understand how the offenders are actually brought to justice via the False Claims Act, how long the process takes (years to decades), and, ultimately, the toll the ardu

Author

Henry Scammell

Publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871139092

Subjects

Law, History, Political Science