We Should Be Encouraging More Whistleblowing Businesses

Those of us who advocate for the False Claims Act and whistleblower law like to say that we believe in business and we believe in the fairness of the capitalist system. Yet somehow whistleblower laws get attacked as being anti-business or that they somehow go too far. The biggest critics and attackers of these laws like to claim that whistleblower laws are anti-business.

Maybe those of us on the whistleblower side have a responsibility to seek out business clients to make clear that we are on the side of legitimate commerce. We need to see more business related whistleblowers come forward when they learn of real fraud and we need to work with these kinds of clients to foster support for these laws.

It is worth remembering that there is nothing that prevents someone in business who legitimately learns about fraud being conducted by a competitor from blowing the whistle on that competitor. In fact, there have been a few successful cases that have resulted from exactly this kind of whistleblowing under the False Claims Act. Let’s call it business to business whistleblowing.

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