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Fraud, the silent epidemic
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 51 – The Compliance Week at 20 Edition
The Next FCRA Frontier: Identity Theft and CFPB Updates — FCRA Focus Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 29, 2025, The GenZ/RTO Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – A Study in Scarlet, Introduction to Compliance Lessons
Unlocking the Secrets of Reverse Mortgages — The Consumer Finance Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - DOJ’s Reliance on FCA to Pursue Covid-Related Fraud
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Elder Financial Exploitation
Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2025, The Whistleblowers Awarded Edition
An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | Preparing for the UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence
Sunday Book Review: March 23, 2025, The Hard-Boiled Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending, March 22, 2025
Daily Compliance News: March 14, 2025, The $200 Transaction Edition
PilieroMazza Annual Review: What DOJ’s 2024 FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Episode 354 -- The New Era of Compliance: Generative AI, Data and Innovation
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 4 - A Focus on the FCA – Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
In last year’s edition of EnforceMintz, we predicted that 2024 would bring an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement activity related to COVID-19 pandemic fraud. Those predictions proved correct. The COVID-19 Fraud...more
Whenever new technologies emerge or new pots of government funds for assistance are available, you can count on one thing (as the sun rises and sets) – fraudsters will figure out a way to steal money from innocent persons and...more
On October 13, 2022, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) for another three months, now valid through January 11, 2023. Additionally, HHS has...more
n a recent article in the New York Times, David Fahrenthold outlined the big issue facing prosecutors investigating COVID-era fraud: the sheer magnitude of it. The title of the article, “Prosecutors Struggle to Catch Up to a...more
On April 20, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a nationwide coordinated law enforcement action to combat health care-related COVID-19 fraud. In line with the announcement, the federal government has...more
Vanessa R. Waldref, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, recently announced the creation of a new interagency COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force to combat alleged fraud arising from the pandemic. One of its...more
AGG’s Government Investigations Team Insights provides periodic updates covering legal and regulatory topics. In this edition, we analyze a recent Eleventh Circuit decision addressing False Claims Act penalties and the...more
The federal government is substantially ramping up its enforcement of COVID-19-related fraud. In a press release issued yesterday, the United States Secret Service announced the naming of a “National Pandemic Fraud Recovery...more
When announcing the Democratic members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis for the 117th Congress, Chairman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) stated that, “In order to improve our nation’s response, the Select Subcommittee...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has intensified its already aggressive crackdown on fraud related to COVID-19, recently announcing criminal charges against a telemedicine company executive, a physician, marketers and medical...more
COVID-19 Task Force Established to Enhance Enforcement Efforts against Fraud - On May 17, 2021, the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General announced the establishment of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force,...more
The economic response to the pandemic will continue to generate significant investigative scrutiny by Congress, inspectors general, and law enforcement—likely for years to come. The House Select Subcommittee on the...more
The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) was created on March 27, 2020 as part of the first COVID-19 relief package. Over the past year, Congress appropriated almost $700 billion to the PPP in an effort to provide forgivable...more
The Justice Department has widened its crackdown on COVID-19 fraud, announcing the first criminal case alleging misuse of federal relief funds designated for medical providers. The egregious nature of the alleged fraud and...more
Although many businesses throughout the United States were decimated during the Covid-19 pandemic, a few have been able to pivot and take advantage of new opportunities unfolding in the now lucrative market for personal...more
On June 28, 2020, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Management Alert raising concerns of potential fraud relating to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loan and Advance grant...more
Emergency COVID-19 relief legislation signed into law by President Trump, including the Coronavirus Aid, Recovery, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), has allocated more than $2 trillion in economic aid to individuals,...more