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Examples of False Claims Act Cases and Recoveries
- $325 million paid by SmithKline Beecham PLC to the federal government to settle whistleblower lawsuits alleging the company's clinical-laboratory unit defrauded the Medicare and Medicaid by improperly billing for laboratory tests.
- $649 million paid by Merck & Co., Inc. paid to the federal government and various state governments to settle cases involving the company’s failure to correctly pay rebates owed under state Medicaid Programs and the Federal Medicaid Drug Rebate statute.
- $110 million paid by Shell Oil Company to settle claims that Shell underpaid royalties owed for oil produced on federal leases.
- $15 million paid by an advertising company to settle claims it had improperly billed the U.S. Army by, among other things, improperly billing affiliated companies as third-party subcontractors at higher rates than allowed by the U.S. Army’s contract.
- $16.5 million paid by Mellon Bank, N.A., to settle claims relating to the destruction of tens of thousands of individual tax returns and checks in 2001 that the bank was supposed to process for the Treasury Department.
- $52 million paid by Pratt & Whitney and its subcontractor, PCC Airfoils LLC, to settle claims that they knowingly sold defective turbine blade replacements for jet engines used in military aircrafts.