On May 19, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum titled Civil Rights Fraud Initiative announcing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) plan to use the False Claims Act (FCA) to “aggressively” pursue...more
5/23/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Colleges ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Educational Institutions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Relators ,
Reverse Discrimination ,
Risk Management ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Trump Administration ,
Universities
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York last week announced the resolution of two significant False Claims Act (FCA) cases—one from a large settlement and the other the result of a jury verdict after...more
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Corporation Counsel James E. Johnson released a statement announcing their recovery of a $105 million settlement from a hedge fund...more
3/8/2021
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Deferred Compensation ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Hedge Funds ,
New York ,
Penalties ,
Qui Tam ,
Shell Corporations ,
State Attorneys General ,
Tax Evasion ,
Third-Party ,
Whistleblowers
On June 16, 2020, Lowenstein Sandler presented The Specter of Whistleblower Actions & the CARES Act: An Overview, in which Lowenstein’s Kathleen A. McGee and Rachel Maimin, along with Greg Krakower, a leading authority on...more