Editor’s note: This article is the first in a two-part series. The second part can be found here.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, government spending on military defense reached unprecedented levels. Investigations and prosecutions of alleged fraud by military defense contractors dominated the daily headlines and filled court dockets. By 1985, almost half of all defense contractors were under investigation for some type of fraud. With the collapse of the former Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s, budgets for military defense spending deflated. Shortly thereafter, the Department of Justice shifted its priorities to the investigation and prosecution of health care fraud cases. Defense contractors breathed a collective sigh of relief after more than a decade of highly concentrated government scrutiny.
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