The Ballew Syndrom^©
"Whistle Blower" = Fraud + Government Mismanagement³.

        The DOJ admits the DOJ, FBI and some government agency failed in their fiscal management responsibilities 4,280 times in the last 20 years.
        If you hear the term "whistle blower" then at least 3 government agencies screwed up. There can never be a "whistle blower" unless a defrauded government agency, the DOJ and FBI, fail to (1) prevent, (2) identify, (3) stop, (4) investigate or (5) litigate defense, medical and investment fraud on the taxpayers' dollars. Any one of these actions eliminates any whistle blower and his or her award. The DOJ self-reported that they failed to do their jobs at least 4,280 times between 1982 to 2003.
        Let me repeat that… there is no "whistle blower" unless the government fails to do its job. In fact, a specific incident of government mismanagement, negligence or failure to do its job must be identified in order for any private citizen to be qualified as a "whistle blower" and be awarded a percentage of any recovered public fisc funds. It is mandatory by law that the "proceeds of the action or settlement of the claim" be identified to the court and returned to the U.S. Treasury Department's miscellaneous receipts account (or America's medical trust fund).
        Qui tam Plaintiffs that file a qui tam lawsuit are called "whistle blowers" by the DOJ (1) to deflect criticism of the DOJ and (2) to mitigate sanctions against the government agency that allowed itself to be defrauded. Concretely, neither the defrauded agency, the DOJ nor the FBI did their job to prevent, identify, stop, investigate or litigate the violations of the law.
        The DOJ admits they failed 4,280 times in the last 20 years.
        How many actual times were there? How many billions were really recovered and returned directly back to the negligent agency? How did the conspiracy to "use it or lose it" work and who was involved on a regular basis? If this is an ongoing conspiracy and it violates the qui tam laws, is it a continuing criminal enterprise and who are its "kingpins"?
        Department of Justice Press Release # 00-000 reports that 4,281 private citizen qui tam lawsuits were filed in the 20 years from from 1983 to 2003 and $7,873,273,039.00 was returned to the U.S. Treasury or the Medicare/Medicade Trust Fund. 23 private citizen qui tam lawsuits were filed in 1987 to recover taxpayer dollars lost to fraud on the government. 326 private citizen qui tam lawsuits were filed in 2003 to recover taxpayer dollars lost to fraud on the government. The DOJ declined to intervene in 2,184 cases and intervened in 750 cases. 891 are under investigation.

CONCLUSION:

        These 4,281 failures, that the DOJ admits to the public, certainly discredits and defeats the historic, court accepted presumptions that "the government is always right and acts within the law." Is the DOJ conspiring with their Executive Branch agencies to prevent the loss of their budget funds and prevent their return to Treasury as this law requires? Is this as bad as the original crimes? These private citizen lawsuits highlight government agency mismanagement... not the successes of the DOJ and FBI. They're getting worse, not better.
        When will Congress, Treasury and the House Appropriations Committee finally insist upon a complete audit of these recurring actions by the DOJ, FBI and defrauded agencies?
        It's our money.