2011 mid-year False Claims Act update

$7,300,000,000!  That's 7.3 billion dollars.  If that figure grabbed your attention, imagine the reaction of federal and state prosecutors and qui tam plaintiffs' lawyers across the country when they heard that between January 2009 and June 2011, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") recovered more than $7.3 billion in civil settlements and judgments alone under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-33 (the "FCA" or the "Act").