What to Know About Whistleblowing from Whistleblower Royalty with Sam Buffone

About this episode

This episode discusses the False Claims Act and the role of whistleblowers in recovering funds for taxpayers, featuring attorney Sam Buffone.

Have you hear of the False Claims Act? This whistleblower statute recovers $2–6 billion per year for taxpayers. But most of us have never heard of it. Well, If you report fraud against the government (a "qui tam" action) and the government recovers, the whistleblower receives 15–25% of the recovery. Sam Buffone is our guest on this episode of Fraudish, he is whistleblower attorney and founder of the Buffone Law Group. Sam spent 9 years at the Department of Justice and helped recover $3 ...

People in this episode

Host: Kelly Paxton

Guest: Sam Buffone

Topics covered

• whistleblowing
• fraud
• law
• government
• taxpayer recovery

Keywords

• whistleblower
• False Claims Act
• qui tam
• fraud recovery
• government fraud

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Buffone Law Group, Department of Justice

Books & works: False Claims Act

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