WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following news release:
Under a law championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the federal government recovered over $6.8 billion in fraudulent payments in fiscal year 2025 (FY25), the largest single-year recovery in the history of the False Claims Act. Whistleblowers were responsible for helping recover a vast majority of this amount, over $5.3 billion. During that same period, whistleblowers filed 1,297 qui tam lawsuits, the highest number in a single year. Since Grassley strengthened the False Claims Act in 1986, it has recouped approximately $85 billion for taxpayers and saved countless more by deterring would-be fraudsters.
"The False Claims Act remains the government's single gr...