In addition, suit must be brought in district court. Stinson argues that its status as a relator is irrelevant, and that it is entitled to a share of the government's recovery because it provided much of the information the government used in obtaining the significant settlement and recovery from Provident. Thus Stinson states that it has brought a proper claim under the Tucker Act, wherein the False Claims Act is the money-mandating statute. Stinson seeks to distinguish the facts of its case from those of LeBlanc , and argues that it was the government's failure to sue the wrongdoer that barred LeBlanc from receiving a statutory share of the recovery, not his failure to qualify as a relator. We do not share Stinson's view that it is not necessary to be a relator in order to share in a recovery obtained under the False Claims Act.
Recovery is available only under the conditions of the False Claims Act.
In LeBlanc the question of whether the claimant was a proper relator had been finally decided in the district court and affirmed by the First Circuit. Stinson, like LeBlanc, has already been adjudicated not to be a relator under the False Claims Act. Thus he has no right to claim under the Tucker Act an asserted governmental obligation incurred under the False Claims Act. Moreover, jurisdiction lies only in the district court, thus the Court of Federal Claims correctly dismissed Stinson's claim.