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Investigations Newsletter: Dental Office and Its Founders and Owners Agree to Pay Over $6 Million to Resolve FCA Allegations

Dental Office and Its Founders and Owners Agree to Pay Over $6 Million to Resolve FCA Allegations - West Coast Dental Administrative Services LLC and its founders and former owners agreed to pay $6.3 million to resolve...more

Investigations Newsletter: Precision Lens Pays $12 Million to Resolve FCA and AKS Violations

Precision Lens Pays $12 Million to Resolve FCA and AKS Violations - Late last week, Precision Lens and the estate of its former principal agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations regarding violations of the False...more

Investigations Newsletter: Texas Pharmaceutical Marketer Sentenced for $59 Million Medications Fraud Conspiracy

Texas Pharmaceutical Marketer Sentenced for $59 Million Medications Fraud Conspiracy - On July 12, Quintan Cockerell, a Texas pharmaceutical marketer, was sentenced to over two years in prison and ordered to pay more than...more

Investigations Newsletter: DOJ Announces Agreement With Rite Aid to Settle Allegations of Violating the FCA and CSA in Relation to...

DOJ Announces Agreement With Rite Aid to Settle Allegations of Violating the FCA and CSA in Relation to Opioid Dispensing - On July 10, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Rite Aid Corporation and 10 of its...more

Investigations Newsletter: Teva and DOJ May Reach Settlement in Closely Watched AKS Lawsuit

Teva and DOJ May Reach Settlement in Closely Watched AKS Lawsuit - On June 16, Teva Pharmaceuticals filed a request with the First Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to hold in abeyance its interlocutory appeal concerning...more

Investigations Newsletter: Chicago Laboratory Owner Charged with Defrauding Medicare in $60 Million COVID-19 Test Kit Scheme

Chicago Laboratory Owner Charged with Defrauding Medicare in $60 Million COVID-19 Test Kit Scheme - The Chicago-based owner of two laboratories, Zoom Labs Inc. and Western Labs Co., has been charged with health care fraud...more

Investigations Newsletter: Biomedical Company Avoids DOJ Prosecution After First Ever Voluntary Corporate Self-Disclosure of Fraud...

Biomedical Company Avoids DOJ Prosecution After First Ever Voluntary Corporate Self-Disclosure of Fraud Under NSD Enforcement Policy - On May 22, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not prosecute a...more

Sentencing Commission Proposes Amendment to Limit ‘Acquitted Conduct’

On Wednesday, April 17, the US Sentencing Commission dramatically restricted consideration of so-called “acquitted conduct” when courts determine criminal sentences under the Guidelines Manual. The guidelines that...more

4/30/2024  /  Criminal Defense , Fraud , New Rules , SCOTUS , Theft

Canadian Man Sentenced for Operating $175 Million Psychic Mass-Mailing Fraud Scheme

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries- Canadian Man Sentenced for Operating $175 Million Psychic Mass-Mailing Fraud Scheme - On April 15, Patrice Runner, a Canadian and French...more

Investigations Newsletter: Trio Sentenced to Eight to 15 Years in Prison for Laundering Proceeds of Telephone Scam

Trio Sentenced to Eight to 15 Years in Prison for Laundering Proceeds of Telephone Scam - Following a jury trial, three individuals were convicted of a money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to eight, 10, and 15 years...more

Investigations Newsletter: Commonwealth Financial Network Must Pay $72 Million in SEC Enforcement Action

Commonwealth Financial Network Must Pay $72 Million in SEC Enforcement Action - Late last week, a Massachusetts federal judge ordered Commonwealth Financial Network to pay over $72 million due to its “egregious” failure to...more

Investigations Newsletter: Cooperation Spares Former NBA Shooting Guard From Prison

Cooperation Spares Former NBA Shooting Guard From Prison - Former National Basketball Association (NBA) shooting guard, Antoine Wright, was sentenced to time served after he pled guilty to conspiracy and aggravated...more

Investigations Newsletters: Georgia Laboratory Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony Anti-Kickback Statute Violations

Georgia Laboratory Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony Anti-Kickback Statute Violations - On February 28, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the guilty plea of Andrew Maloney, who, along with his clinical laboratory...more

Investigations Newsletter: Three Individuals Sentenced for $3.5 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme

Three Individuals Sentenced for $3.5 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme- On February 6, three individuals were sentenced for fraudulently obtaining and misusing Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans that the US Small...more

Investigations Newsletter: Home Health Care Owner Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme

Home Health Care Owner Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme - This week, the owner of a home health company was sentenced to nine years in prison for orchestrating a nearly $2.8 million scheme...more

Investigations Newsletter: DC Federal Judge Dramatically Amplifies False Claims Act Damages Award

DC Federal Judge Dramatically Amplifies False Claims Act Damages Award - On January 16, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion agreeing in part with the federal...more

Investigations Newsletter: Ultragenyx to Pay $6 Million To Settle False Claims Act Case

Ultragenyx to Pay $6 Million To Settle False Claims Act Case - Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. recently agreed to pay $6 million to settle a qui tam action filed under the False Claims Act (FCA). Ultragenyx manufactures a...more

Investigations Newsletter: Three Men Sentenced for $54 Million TRICARE Fraud Scheme

Three Men Sentenced for $54 Million TRICARE Fraud Scheme - Three men were sentenced in connection with a $54 million bribery and kickback scheme involving TRICARE, a federal program that provides health insurance benefits...more

Investigations Newsletter: Nevada Man Sentenced to 51 Months Imprisonment for Prize-Notification Fraud Scheme

Nevada Man Sentenced to 51 Months Imprisonment for Prize-Notification Fraud Scheme - Earlier this week, a Nevada man was sentenced to 51 months in prison for perpetrating a prize-notification scheme that defrauded...more

Investigations Newsletter: Medical Marketer Convicted of $55 Million Fraud Scheme

Medical Marketer Convicted of $55 Million Fraud Scheme - Late last week, a federal jury in the Northern District of Texas convicted Quintan Cockerell for his role in a $55 million fraud conspiracy involving TRICARE, a...more

Investigations Newsletter: FTX Founder’s Fraud Trial Continues in Manhattan Court

FTX Founder’s Fraud Trial Continues in Manhattan Court - The criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried continued this week in Manhattan where the FTX founder faces several charges, including fraud, conspiracy, and money...more

Investigations Newsletter: Arkansas Men Convicted in $18 Million Global Investment Fraud Conspiracy

Arkansas Men Convicted in $18 Million Global Investment Fraud Conspiracy - A federal jury in the Western District of Arkansas convicted four men of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money...more

“Convergence” Element of Wire Fraud On Thin Ice?

On August 7, 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the most recent federal appellate court to reject the argument that a wire fraud conviction requires the government to establish that the entity that was...more

Investigations Newsletter: DOJ Announced Results of Nationwide COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement

DOJ Announced Results of Nationwide COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement - On Wednesday, August 23, 2023, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the results of a coordinated, nationwide enforcement action to combat COVID-19...more

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