Government Program, Tax and Procurement Fraud

Offenses in which a person or business defrauds a government body specifically, whether by evading a tax actually owed, falsely claiming a public benefit, defrauding a government procurement or contracting process, defrauding a government-funded healthcare program, misrepresenting information to a bankruptcy court, profiteering from a war effort through government contracts, or defrauding an adoption process that a government agency administers or funds. This group is organized around the state as the victim or the administrator of the defrauded program, distinguishing it from ordinary consumer fraud, corporate fraud or bribery of an individual official, even where the same underlying conduct, such as a false claim or a kickback, also appears in those other groups in a private-sector context.