Only the strongest survive. That’s what the DOJ is projecting with the FOCUS initiative, which is meant to bring the agency together with the best data miners digging into FCA whistleblower complaints, write Selina P. Coleman, Lesley C. Reynolds, Thomas H. Suddath, Jr., David A. Bender and Matthew K. Loughran of Reed Smith.

On April 30, the DOJ announced the fraud oversight through careful use of statistics (FOCUS) initiative, a new anti-fraud initiative designed to “improve the Department’s ability to prioritize working with the most successful data miners” filing qui tam, or whistleblower, complaints under the False Claims Act (FCA).

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