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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
The Supreme Court’s decision clarifies the civil damages provision of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. On April 2, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Medical Marijuana, Inc. v. Horn,...more
Takeaway: A civil RICO claim – especially one framed as a putative class action – can be a powerful cause of action, given the civil remedies for RICO violations, which include treble damages and mandatory fee-shifting. ...more
Since the enactment of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, it has been invoked in civil litigation with mixed results. Congress did not intend for RICO to become a surrogate for plaintiffs’ state...more
A commercial truck driver who lost his job after failing a drug test wants to hold cannabis product makers liable under a federal racketeering law – and the case has worked itself all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. The...more
In the House, lawmakers continue to make progress on the Clarity for Stablecoins Act (H.R. 4766). On March 19, at a press event hosted by Punchbowl News on the policy landscape for digital payments, outgoing House Financial...more
Amazon to invest in Diamond Sports as part of bankruptcy deal | ABC News - Diamond Sports has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since it filed for protection last March with debt of $8.67 billion. Amazon will partner...more
The PTAB requires that all petitioners in IPR and PGR proceedings disclose the real party(ies)-in-interest. While that might seem like a mere formality, a false disclosure can lead to very harsh consequences....more
There is an emerging trend in products liability law whereby a plaintiff styles a case as a RICO claim, but at its core the gravamen of the dispute is an extension of a products liability action. In a recent installment of...more
GEICO, et al. v. Caring Pain Management PC, et al., Case No. 2:22-cv-05017(BRM)(JSA) 2023 WL 3749984 (U.S.D.C. District of New Jersey May 31, 2023) - The defendants (a series of medical providers) filed a motion to dismiss,...more
In a January 17, 2023 Client Alert, we addressed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari in CMB Monaco v. Smagin and Yegiazaryan v. Smagin, two cases which concern the use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt...more
Takeaway: There are, essentially, two ways to defeat a RICO class action: through the denial of class certification or by the dismissal of the RICO claims on the merits. We have written a number of articles about both the...more
Join Troutman Pepper White Collar and Litigation Partner Cal Stein for a special podcast series, discussing the legal landscape surrounding the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In this installment,...more
On January 13, 2023, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear two related cases in which it will decide for the first time whether and in what circumstances a foreign (non-U.S.) plaintiff may bring a civil action under...more
In a recent precedential opinion authored by Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz, Dirauf v. Berger (3d Cir. Dec. 28, 2022), a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit clarified when it has jurisdiction to...more
Takeaway: Over two years ago, the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss a putative civil RICO class action alleging an “overcharge-by-fraud” theory, where the class representatives appeared to have suffered no...more
This edition of Regulatory Oversight spotlights recent RICO Report Podcast episode “Pattern of Racketeering Activity,” featuring two firm Regulatory Practice Group attorneys Chris Carlson and Mary Grace Metcalfe. In this...more
A class-action lawsuit was filed on July 12 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas alleging that cannabis testing companies inflated the amount of THC found in cannabis flower...more
In Part I of this series Defending RICO Claims in the Business Context, we described why a plan to defend against potential claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–68,...more
On March 4, 2022, Judge Lewis Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed an 18-count complaint alleging a multi-year “loan-to-own” conspiracy—including claims of fraud, RICO and money...more
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion that potentially broadens the proximate cause element of claims brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). RICO’s proximate...more
Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. Sections 1961–68, over 51 years ago with the intent to close the gap in the criminal prosecution of organized crime. So why should...more
Taxpayers who file false tax returns with the IRS can find themselves in hot water. Indeed, section 7206(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Title 26”) makes it a felony to file a false return when the taxpayer knows that the...more
A grand jury in Pennsylvania recently indicted the former Dean of Temple University’s business school, Dr. Moshe Porat, for wire fraud, alleging that he submitted false data to U.S. News & World Report in an effort to...more
On March 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered an order dismissing all but one claim against Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (collectively, the “Mercedes Defendants”) in a...more
On February 2, 2021, Judge Kevin McNulty of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey declined to reconsider his dismissal of a RICO claim in a putative class action against BMW and automotive part supplier...more