03/06/2012
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"Since the 1986 amendments, the taxpayers have recovered more than $53 billion of public money lost to fraud."
"In 1986, I coauthored amendments to the Lincoln-era False Claims Act that empowered whistleblowers to help the government identify and prosecute fraud on taxpayers."
"Thirty-three billion of that came from the health-care sector."
"Thank you, Mr. Garcia-Diaz, for GAO doing some studies I have asked you to do."