In a March 4, 2026, article published by Law360, Veronica Nannis discusses the recent Department of Justice report that illustrated the Trump administration’s continued FCA enforcement in 2025, including a record $6.8 billion enforcement haul.
The historic, expanding enforcement has been a trend in recent years, culminating in 2025’s “eye-popping” dollar amount, Veronica said.
The administration’s focus on fraud in the areas of DEI continues to be both a priority and without precedent, Veronica explained. She also predicted that any DEI or gender-affirming care-based enforcement areas would not withstand future administrations as easily as more bipartisan areas, such as Medicaid and defense fraud.
“It will be very, very difficult — an uphill battle — to prove that a company knowingly violated an executive order that changed, or seemed to change, the interpretation of the executive orders before that, and/or federal law before that, like Title VII and Title IX,” Veronica said.
Read the full article “Trump’s FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk.” (PDF)
