Major False Claims Act settlement recoveries extracted from `doj_press_releases` — 42 settlement events including Eli Lilly's $1.415B Zyprexa settlement (largest pharma criminal fine ever at the time), Northrop Grumman $325M, Quest Diagnostics $302M, Perfectus Aluminum $549M. The False Claims Act is the federal government's primary tool against fraud on the U.S. Treasury — settlements named here total billions in recoveries. Pairs with `doj_press_releases` (the full corpus), `sec_litigation_releases`, and `epa_enforcement_cases` for cross-vertical fraud picture.
Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.justice.gov/civil/false-claims-act. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.