{"id":127,"date":"2025-05-27T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:48:08","slug":"doj-announces-aggressive-use-of-false-claims-act-as-part-of-civil-rights-fraud-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/05\/27\/doj-announces-aggressive-use-of-false-claims-act-as-part-of-civil-rights-fraud-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Announces Aggressive Use of False Claims Act as Part of Civil Rights Fraud Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 19, 2025, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the U.S. Department of Justice will use the False Claims Act (FCA) to enforce the administration\u2019s policies concerning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices and antisemitism. The FCA is a powerful tool, and its invocation by the DOJ is a signal to federal-funding recipients that they will face increased scrutiny, and likely more aggressive enforcement actions, if they continue to engage in DEI practices that are or may be deemed unlawful by the administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/doj_announces_aggressive_use_false_claims_act_part_civil_rights_fraud_initiative_0525.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/doj_announces_aggressive_use_false_claims_act_part_civil_rights_fraud_initiative_0525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full <em>Alert <\/em>on the Duane Morris website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 19, 2025, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the U.S. Department of Justice will use the False Claims Act (FCA) to enforce the administration\u2019s policies concerning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices and antisemitism. The FCA is a powerful tool, and its invocation by the DOJ is a signal to federal-funding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/05\/27\/doj-announces-aggressive-use-of-false-claims-act-as-part-of-civil-rights-fraud-initiative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DOJ Announces Aggressive Use of False Claims Act as Part of Civil Rights Fraud Initiative&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,37,18,19],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dei","tag-executive-order","tag-fca","tag-higher-education"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2020\/10\/dmlogo.jpg","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}