Steps Your Nonprofit Can Take to Mitigate Fraud Risks - Part 2
Fraud Risks at Nonprofit Organizations - Part 1
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Estate Planning and the Corporate Transparency Act
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 38 - A Blueprint for Compliance: The Fraud Pentagon Theory
FCA Uncovered: Mitigating Risk in the Regulatory Spotlight — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Tackling Credit Push Fraud: Understanding Nacha's Risk Management Package (Part Two) — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - Think You Know Whistleblowers? Think Again.
PilieroMazza Annual Review What DOJ’s Annual FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 6 – Mitigating Class Action Exposure
Compliance into the Weeds: The ACFE 2024 Anti-Fraud Technology Benchmarking Report
AD Nauseam: Cabbage Soup v. Keto Diet: The Evolving FTC and NAD Approach to Post-Holiday Weight Loss Claims
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Defendants Testifying (Poorly), FOMO, and How to Actually Blame Lawyers
Detecting Fraud in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 25 - An Investigative Journalist’s Insight Into the COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 11
JONES DAY TALKS®: Looking for ESG Fraud – CFTC Solicits Carbon Markets Whistleblowers
ChatGPT Risks for Compliance Programs
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Varsity Blues Reversals Turn DOJ Red
Giving Compliance Advice
Crypto Enforcement Actions - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
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Individuals continue to face risk from prosecutions for economic crime, despite media focus on corporate criminal liability reforms. Four individuals have today appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with fraud...more
A federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois recently awarded nearly $23 million to the developer of a luxury hotel in Chicago’s trendy West Loop arising from multiple breaches of contract and fraud by its...more
In Salesmark Ventures, LLC v. Jay Singh, JJHM Trading Corp., Justice Joel M. Cohen dismissed, inter alia, the plaintiff’s claim to pierce the corporate veil of the defendant and impose personal liability on the defendant’s...more
The South Carolina Supreme Court recently provided additional guidance about the application of the doctrine of amalgamation/single business enterprise theory in Stoneledge at Lake Keowee Owners’ Assoc., Inc. v. IMK Dev....more
ACI’s and C5’s 10th Edition of Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Miami conference is returning on January 24 – 25, 2022 in person! Deemed as the foremost, can’t-miss event for the Fraud community, it gathers the pre-eminent...more
C5's 15th International Conference on Anti-Corruption London will take place November 2 – 3, 2021 in Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge, London. Join your peers for the IN-PERSON reunion of the legal and compliance...more
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Halloween is just around the corner, and if you thought this year could not get any scarier, think again. Failure to remit your business’ taxes to the state may result in a personal visit by the Office of the Texas...more
A Florida business owner facing criminal charges serves as a cautionary tale: think twice before using Payroll Protection Program funds to upgrade to a Lamborghini. And, think a third time if you believe you are...more
Dear YouDig? When we first met, the contractor’s owner pulled into the site in his tricked out red pickup and promised us the stars and the moon. Unfortunately, all we ended up with was the pits! We ended up with a leaky...more
Decker Constr. Co. v. Wesex Corp., No. 2:18-cv-727, 2019 BL 232653 (S.D. Ohio June 24, 2019) - In Decker Construction Co. v. Wesex Corporation, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio declined to...more
Fifth Third Mortgage Co. v. Kaufman, No. 18-3295 (7th Cir. Aug. 9, 2019) - Brief Summary - The Seventh Circuit affirmed a ruling that an attorney was personally liable for aiding and abetting a mortgage fraud scheme....more
The Colorado Court of Appeals recently held that the Colorado Wage Claim Act does not categorically bar individual liability for unpaid wages, rejecting arguments that a 2003 Colorado Supreme Court decision precluded any and...more
California Fitness’s closure has left many consumers who have purchased prepaid packages without any remedies. On 20 July, California Fitness, which was once fronted by action movie star Jackie Chan, announced that it...more
Last month, we reported on a Massachusetts federal court jury’s decision to acquit the former CEO of Warner Chilcott in one of the first prosecutions of a health care executive following the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”)...more
In a resounding 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved an existing split among the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, determining that "actual fraud" under Section 523(a)(2)(A) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code does not require...more
A recent decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “District Court”), affirming a decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the...more
Many of us have endured the nightmare of a disastrous home renovation or at least enjoyed Tom Hanks in The Money Pit (How long? Two weeks, of course). Well imagine spending half a million dollars, not for a new and improved...more
A false notarized payment application signed by a Contractor and submitted to an Owner may make both the Contractor and the person who signed the false application personally liable for damages suffered by the Owner. ...more
In a recent memorandum issued to Main Justice litigating components and United States Attorney’s offices nationwide, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillan Yates emphasized that “fighting corporate fraud and other misconduct”...more
On August 27, 2015 the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a post-trial decision, In re Dole Food Company, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, that held two of Dole’s directors, David Murdock and Michael Carter, personally liable for...more
In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been criticized for failing to prosecute executives for fraud, particularly in the financial sector. In response, the DOJ has begun to more heavily emphasize...more
A trustee who transfers trust property to a permissible appointee for the benefit of an impermissible appointee such that the fraud on a special power doctrine is implicated incurs no liability as a consequence, unless the...more
Last week, the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an indictment charging Vascular Solutions Inc. (VSI) and its CEO Howard Root with (1) selling medical devices without the approval of the U.S. Food...more