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As previously mentioned, most federal investigators of false claims cases, including OIG investigators, are trained as criminal investigators and, as a result, conduct mainly criminal investigations of false claims. Within the OIGs, most procurement or program fraud allegations of false claims are referred to them are investigated as criminal cases. Thus, most federal investigators do not have experience in investigating civil cases and the type of proof necessary to successfully prosecute such cases.

Other common types of cases involve product and service substitution and false certification of entitlement for benefits. Examples of product and service substitution are falsely certifying that a product meets specifications, false testing schemes such as falsely certifying that reliability testing was conducted and providing an inferior service or product. Examples of false certification of entitlement cases are falsely certifying information for FHA mortgage guarantees and price supports.

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