Join Troutman Pepper White Collar and Government Investigation Partners Callan Stein, Miranda Hooker, and Allison DeLaurentis for a podcast discussion on the DOJ’s updated guidelines regarding corporate criminal enforcement....more
9/27/2022
/ Compliance Monitoring ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Culture ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement ,
Individual Accountability ,
Internal Controls ,
New Guidance ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
White Collar Crimes
On March 2, Ericsson, the Swedish networking and telecommunications company, reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused the company of violating its 2019 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) by failing to...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has once again raised the bar for corporations seeking cooperation credit in government investigations. Last Thursday, DOJ issued a department memorandum and announced three significant...more
The year is 2012, and the biotech you founded has just received FDA approval for a wildly promising product with significant differentiation from other products in its class. You only have 35 employees, but begin to build a...more
I. Introduction -
While 2020 was a year like no other in many ways, the challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic do not appear to have stalled the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) health care fraud enforcement...more
2/3/2021
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Telemedicine
The Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into its first civil settlement for loan fraud involving the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). On January 12, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California...more
Telemedicine providers – whether they are established or new to the space – should examine the type of conduct DOJ has recently focused on and adapt their compliance systems accordingly. Providers should also consider the...more
Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) updated its “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” guidance — the third iteration of DOJ’s guidance on this topic. The update is intended to offer transparency as to how DOJ...more
As scientists around the globe team up to discover and develop treatments and vaccine candidates for COVID-19, we are also seeing unprecedented speed and coordination in the effort to quell a different kind of virus — the...more
8/4/2020
/ CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
Securities Fraud ,
SIGPR ,
White Collar Crimes
As the world’s health care facilities grapple with the devastating and unexpected operational struggles brought by COVID-19, nursing homes and long-term care facilities face the added challenge of protecting their residents...more