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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: District Court Declines to Stay Case Pending Resolution of FCA Causation Standard Issue Before Court of...

District Court Declines to Stay Case Pending Resolution of FCA Causation Standard Issue Before Court of Appeals - Earlier this week, a Massachusetts federal judge denied a motion to stay proceedings filed by Medtronic,...more

Investigations Newsletter: Florida Lab Owner Agrees to Pay Over $27 Million to Resolve Three Whistleblower Lawsuits

Florida Lab Owner Agrees to Pay Over $27 Million to Resolve Three Whistleblower Lawsuits - Daniel Hurt, the prior owner and operator of Fountain Health Services LLC, Verify Health, Landmark Diagnostics LLC, First Choice...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

Investigations Newsletter: Testing Facility Settles $2.5 Million Anti-Kickback Lawsuit

Testing Facility Settles $2.5 Million Anti-Kickback Lawsuit - On May 15, the US Attorneys for the Southern District of New York announced that they had settled their civil fraud lawsuit against Balance Diagnostics USA,...more

Investigations Newsletter: Big Baby’s Big Foul: Former NBA Star Glen 'Big Baby' Davis Sentenced to 40 Months for Healthcare Fraud...

Big Baby’s Big Foul: Former NBA Star Glen 'Big Baby' Davis Sentenced to 40 Months for Healthcare Fraud Scheme - On May 9, former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison following...more

Investigations Newsletter: DOJ Secures Plea in $50 Million Medicare Fraud and Kickback Scheme

DOJ Secures Plea in $50 Million Medicare Fraud and Kickback Scheme - On April 26, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Manishkumar Patel pleaded guilty to charges related to a $50 million health care fraud and...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

Investigations Newsletter: Former Comptroller of Ecuador Convicted in International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme

Former Comptroller of Ecuador Convicted in International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme - On April 24, a Miami jury convicted Carlos Ramon Polit Faggioni, the former Comptroller General of Ecuador, for his role in an...more

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: Disgraced Crypto Mogul Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

Disgraced Crypto Mogul Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison - On March 28, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York handed down a substantial term of...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

Second Circuit: Whistleblower Must Adequately Allege Willfulness to Assert FCA Claims Based on AKS Violations

On March 12, the Second Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court dismissal of False Claims Act (FCA) claims predicated on alleged Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) violations. Adam Hart brought the claims...more

Investigations Newsletter: Telemedicine Owner Pleads Guilty to $136 Million Medicare Fraud

Telemedicine Owner Pleads Guilty to $136 Million Medicare Fraud - A licensed nurse practitioner in New Jersey, Jean Wilson, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud. According to court...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: Owner of Telemedicine Companies Settles $110 Million Health Care Fraud Claim

Owner of Telemedicine Companies Settles $110 Million Health Care Fraud Claim - Steven Richardson, the owner of telemedicine companies Expansion Media, LLC and Hybrid Management Group LLC, agreed to settle allegations that...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: SCOTUS Declines to Hear False Claims Act Challenge

SCOTUS Declines to Hear False Claims Act Challenge - On January 22, the US Supreme Court denied a petition to hear a challenge to a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld scienter and False Claims Act (FCA)...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: Clinical Laboratory and CEO To Pay Over $13 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Clinical Laboratory and CEO To Pay Over $13 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations - A New Jersey-based laboratory, RDx Bioscience Inc. (RDX), and its owner and CEO, Eric Leykin, agreed to pay $10,315,023 to the US...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

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