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Life Sciences Company Escapes Criminal Charges for Employee’s Illegal Export Scheme

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Sigma-Aldrich, Inc., d/b/a MilliporeSigma (“MilliporeSigma”), a U.S. life sciences company based in Massachusetts, escaped criminal charges for export control violations, despite a former sales person’s scheme to illegally...more

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U.S. DOJ Antitrust Division Uses Wiretaps to Detect and Prosecute Procurement Collusion

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) has struck again, this time with the help of a Title III wiretap. ...more

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From the NBA Finals to Federal Prison - “Big Baby” Sentenced to 40 months in NBA Healthcare Plan Scheme

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Former NBA player Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison after being convicted for his role in a scheme to defraud the NBA healthcare plan. Davis’ sentence comes almost a year after the scheme’s...more

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Gunvor Falls Under FCPA Axe and Agrees to Pay Criminal Penalty of $661 Million (Part I of III)

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You have to give the Justice Department credit — after two slow enforcement years, DOJ is starting off 2024 with a relative “bang;” first, DOJ reached a large settlement with SAP in January, and now, DOJ has reached a...more

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Steel Company President with Ties to Russian Oligarch Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Alleged Sanctions...

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Earlier this month, John Can Unsalan, the president of a steel-making company with ties to Russian oligarchs, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, based on financial transactions committed with...more

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Crypto Couple Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy

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In February 2022, we blogged on the seizure of a record $3.6 billion in stolen Bitcoin (“BTC”) and an accompanying criminal complaint, charging husband and wife Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein and Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan with...more

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Danske Bank Pleads Guilty and Pays $2 Billion to Resolve Massive Fraud Case

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Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark, agreed to plead guilty to fraud and paid $2 billion to settle long-standing anti-money laundering and fraud violations stemming from its banking operations in Estonia.  Danske Bank...more

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Recent DOJ Consumer Protection Branch Cases Highlight the Branch’s Enforcement Priorities

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Consumer Protection Branch works with other branches and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute civil and criminal violations of the nation’s consumer protection...more

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The DOJ Continues to Prosecute Providers for Fraudulent Telemarketing and Telehealth

A physician in Washington state pled guilty on September 28, 2022, to a criminal charge of conspiring to accept kickbacks related to fraudulent genetic testing. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the physician...more

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US Coal Company VP Arrested and Charged with FCPA, Money Laundering and Wire Fraud Violations

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The Justice Department announced the arrest and indictment of Charles Hunter Hobson for violating the FCPA, money laundering and receiving kickbacks arising from a bribery scheme to pay government officials in Egypt in...more

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The Justice Insiders: FIFA Corruption Trial – Will the Feds Score Another Goal?

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In this episode of The Justice Insiders, Husch Blackwell’s Gregg Sofer and Scott Glabe are joined by their colleague Sal Hernandez, former senior FBI official and private-sector compliance officer, as they discuss the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 18, Number 10. In This Month’s E-News: October 2021

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 10 (October, 2021) - An audit by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) pre-award risk assessment process concluded that...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 30, Number 22. News Briefs: June 2021

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 22 (June 14, 2021) - CMS’ supplemental medical review contractor (SMRC) is now doing postpayment reviews of Medicare claims for electrodiagnostic (EDX) testing axial muscles and...more

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Contech Engineered Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay $8.5 Million for Bid-Rigging and Fraud

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The Antitrust Division has pushed bid-rigging and price-fixing prosecutions of government contractors.  It is long overdue – fraud enforcement has uncovered a number of bid-rigging and price-fixing schemes among government...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 18, Number 6. In This Month’s E-News: June 2021

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 6 (June 2021) - Clemson University is pushing back against recommendations by auditors for the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General (OIG) that it repay $276,440,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Ex-Braskem CEO Pleads Guilty to FCPA Charges

It is rare that a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company pleads guilty to a criminal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) action. It is even rarer yet when that CEO runs a multi-billion dollar company. Yet that is what...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Florida medical doctor pleads guilty to conspiring to falsify clinical trial data

Compliance Today (March 2021) - According to a recent U.S. Department of Justice news release, Yvelice Villaman Bencosme, a Miami, Florida, doctor and the primary investigator for clinical trials designed to investigate...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Opioid manufacturer pleads guilty to fraud

Compliance Today (February 2021) - Purdue Pharma LP pleaded guilty to three felony offenses: “one count of dual-object conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and two...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 18, Number 2. In This Month's E-News: February 2021

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 2 (February 2021) - A National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit of five Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) awards to the...more

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Florida pediatrician pleads guilty to conspiring to falsify clinical trial data in research study for asthma medication for...

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On January 8, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that a Miami, Florida pediatrician pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a clinical research study of an asthma medication for children. ...more

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2020's Bad Guys in Energy

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Larceny, that business enterprise with a knack for (fleeting) success regardless of the state of the economy, was busy last year. As Obi-Wan Kenobe would say it: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 17, Number 12. In This Month's E-News: December 2020

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 12 (December 2020) - Finalizing a document issued last year, on Nov. 9 the Food and Drug Administration issued “Enhancing the Diversity of Clinical Trial Populations—Eligibility...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Sargeant Marine – The Individual Guilty Pleas

We rarely have seen a single Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action generate so many individual criminal pleas. The Sargeant Marine Inc. (Sargeant Marine) case is an exception. To date, there have been six...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Sargeant Marine – The Penalty

Recently we saw one of the most blatant cases of bribery and corruption brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the form of a guilty plea by Sargeant Marine Inc. (Sargeant Marine), an asphalt company, related to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Sargeant Marine – The FCPA Enforcement Action

Recently we saw one of the most blatant cases of bribery and corruption brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the form of a guilty plea by Sargeant Marine Inc. (Sargeant Marine), an asphalt company, related to...more

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