United States v. Alemany Rivera

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that FCA “attaches liability, not to ... the government’s wrongful payment, but to the ‘claim for payment’” (quoting § 3729(a)(1)(A))
• “[T]he statute attaches liability, not to the underlying fraudulent activity or to the government’s wrongful payment, but to the ‘claim for payment.’”
• “Indeed, a contractor who submits a false claim for payment may still be liable under the FCA for statutory penalties, even if it did not actually induce the government to pay out funds or to suffer any loss.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).