This week, Heather and Lauren welcome more members of the Maynard Nexsen team, White Collar attorneys Erica Barnes, Mark Moore, and Christian Dysart. The group takes a deep dive into discussing white-collar crime in the...more
On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court eliminated the “objectively reasonable” potential defense in False Claims Act cases, clarifying that the knowledge or scienter element for a False Claims Act (“FCA”) case is satisfied by...more
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two opinions that vacated criminal convictions for honest services fraud and reshaped the ways in which the federal government can prosecute alleged offenders....more
Even in the midst of a global pandemic, some individuals and businesses have used the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis to take advantage of others. In response to reports of rampant fraud related to the pandemic, on March 16,...more
While white collar and healthcare counsel have long known that one of the best strategies to reducing risk in defending a False Claims Act (FCA) case is cooperation and execution of compliance actions, the Department of...more
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Recognizing that the “right to effective assistance of counsel is a core value” or our justice system, Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued a memo to federal prosecutors instructing them that they should no longer enter...more