United States Asserts False Claims Act, FIRREA Violations In Crop Reinsurance Suit

(September 29, 2021, 12:18 PM EDT) -- YAKIMA, Wash. — A farmer and his company fraudulently obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in crop insurance indemnity payments reinsured by the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. (FCIC) by falsely claiming losses to wheat crops, the government alleges in a complaint filed Sept. 28 in a federal court in Washington under the Financial Institutions Reform and Recovery Enforcement Act (FIRREA) and the False Claims Act....