On May 4, 2022, New Jersey federal district judge Kevin McNulty unsealed a decision ordering Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. to produce two of its former executives unredacted versions of memoranda and notes from its...more
When harmed or in heated disputes, companies sometimes think about bringing the “big guns”—law enforcement agencies—into the fight. Often acting through counsel, a business may seek to refer a matter to the government for...more
In perhaps the last major legislative action under this presidential administration, on New Year’s Day 2021, Congress passed—over President Trump’s veto—what could be the most significant anti-money laundering (AML) statute...more
1/26/2021
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Bank Secrecy Act ,
CFTC ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
FinCEN ,
NDAA ,
Patriot Act ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblowers
On New Year’s Day 2021, Congress passed—over President Trump’s veto—a defense appropriations law containing the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (“AML Act”) and the Corporate Transparency Act, as part of a sweeping new set...more
1/5/2021
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Bank Secrecy Act ,
Customer Due Diligence (CDD) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Export Controls ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
Insurance Industry ,
Money Laundering ,
Nonprofits ,
Pooled Investment Vehicles ,
Sanction Violations ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Shell Corporations ,
Tax Evasion ,
Terrorist Financing Regulations
The past decade has taught lenders much about regulatory enforcement risk. In the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis and collapse of the housing and related markets, the Department of Justice and other agencies...more
9/16/2020
/ Bank Fraud ,
Bank Secrecy Act ,
CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Due Process ,
Entrapment ,
Estoppel ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud ,
Indictments ,
Interim Final Rules (IFR) ,
Lenders ,
Loan Forgiveness ,
Mail Fraud ,
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ,
SBA ,
TARP ,
Underwriting ,
Whistleblowers ,
Wire Fraud
Early on the morning of June 13, 2017, over one hundred federal agents raided facilities across southern California belonging to behavioral health provider Sovereign Heath. The agents provided search warrants indicating that...more
On July 10, 2020, in United States v. Ruan, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions of two Alabama doctors for running an opiate “pill mill.” Among many other things, the government charged that the doctors used...more
7/15/2020
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Blue Cross ,
Criminal Liability ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare ,
Nurse Practitioners ,
OIG ,
Opioid ,
Physicians ,
RICO ,
Travel Act