The Justice Department will use a law typically used to punish corrupt recipients of federal funding to pressure universities ...

American universities are facing another threat from the Trump administration, which intends to use a civil anti-fraud law to ...

President Trump’s political appointees at the department cited antisemitism on campuses as justification for using the law, ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced its plan to employ the False Claims Act as part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to ...

On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new unit, the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will utilize the False Claims ...

The Trump administration wants to use the False Claims Act, a law meant to target fraud by government contractors and federal ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "False Claims Act," curated by The Marshall Project.

“Institutions that take federal money only to allow anti-Semitism and promote divisive DEI policies are putting ... to file a complaint under the False Claims Act. The initiative comes a week ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday the formation of a new unit targeting federally funded universities over alleged ...

The United States announced on Monday the formation of a new unit that will crack down on federally-funded universities that ...

The False Claims Act will be enforced “when a federal contractor ... Institutions also cannot employ DEI programs “that assign benefits or burdens on race, ethnicity, or national origin ...