{"id":473,"date":"2025-05-27T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/?p=473"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:53:16","slug":"doj-announces-pursuing-false-claims-act-violations-against-recipients-of-federal-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2025\/05\/27\/doj-announces-pursuing-false-claims-act-violations-against-recipients-of-federal-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Announces Pursuing False Claims Act Violations Against Recipients of Federal Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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.\u00a0The FCA is a powerful tool, and its invocation by the DOJ is a signal to federal-funding recipients that they will face increased scrutiny. The May 19 Blanche memo now broadly announces an intention to investigate and pursue alleged FCA violations broadly against all recipients of federal funds, but makes special mention of colleges and universities as a focus of the initiative.\u00a0<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><\/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.\u00a0The FCA is a powerful tool, and its invocation by the DOJ is a signal to federal-funding recipients &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2025\/05\/27\/doj-announces-pursuing-false-claims-act-violations-against-recipients-of-federal-funds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DOJ Announces Pursuing False Claims Act Violations Against Recipients of Federal Funds&#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":[350,343,27],"ppma_author":[179],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-executive-orders","tag-fca","tag-higher-education"],"authors":[{"term_id":179,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}