Steps Your Nonprofit Can Take to Mitigate Fraud Risks - Part 2
Fraud Risks at Nonprofit Organizations - Part 1
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Estate Planning and the Corporate Transparency Act
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 38 - A Blueprint for Compliance: The Fraud Pentagon Theory
FCA Uncovered: Mitigating Risk in the Regulatory Spotlight — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Tackling Credit Push Fraud: Understanding Nacha's Risk Management Package (Part Two) — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - Think You Know Whistleblowers? Think Again.
PilieroMazza Annual Review What DOJ’s Annual FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 6 – Mitigating Class Action Exposure
Compliance into the Weeds: The ACFE 2024 Anti-Fraud Technology Benchmarking Report
AD Nauseam: Cabbage Soup v. Keto Diet: The Evolving FTC and NAD Approach to Post-Holiday Weight Loss Claims
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Defendants Testifying (Poorly), FOMO, and How to Actually Blame Lawyers
Detecting Fraud in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 25 - An Investigative Journalist’s Insight Into the COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 11
JONES DAY TALKS®: Looking for ESG Fraud – CFTC Solicits Carbon Markets Whistleblowers
ChatGPT Risks for Compliance Programs
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Varsity Blues Reversals Turn DOJ Red
Giving Compliance Advice
Crypto Enforcement Actions - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its first major complaint-in-intervention under the False Claims Act (FCA) premised on a government contractor’s alleged cybersecurity deficiencies since the DOJ’s Civil Cyber-Fraud...more
Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”), aimed at incentivizing whistleblowers to report potential criminal conduct. The announcement was anticipated, having been previewed in March 2024 by Deputy...more
Cybersecurity requirements for federal contractors and grantees continue to proliferate—and those requirements do not just come with contractual risk. Increasingly, the United States government is leveraging enforcement...more
On August 22, the United States filed its complaint-in-intervention (Complaint) against the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (GTRC, collectively, defendants), asserting claims...more
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its complaint-in-intervention in a qui tam lawsuit against the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), alleging that the university failed to meet certain...more
On August 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its new “Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program” (“DOJ Program”), a three-year initiative managed by DOJ’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section....more
In 2023, the number of federal corporate prosecutions remained far below the 25-year average after two consecutive years of increases. ..The DOJ’s Fraud Section secured just $690 million in penalties across eight...more
An increased government interest in rooting out corporate fraud, coupled with new theories of corporate and individual liability, have made state and federal investigations almost a way of life for large and small companies...more
In March 2024, at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General (“DAG”) Lisa Monaco announced that the Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) intended to...more
At one time, False Claims Act (FCA) investigations and enforcement actions were largely focused on health care and defense contracts. While those two areas continue to dominate the FCA landscape, cybersecurity has emerged as...more
Precision Lens Pays $12 Million to Resolve FCA and AKS Violations - Late last week, Precision Lens and the estate of its former principal agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations regarding violations of the False...more
In June, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced several major False Claims Act (FCA) settlements stemming from qui tam whistleblower lawsuits. Under the FCA’s qui tam provisions, whistleblowers have the power to...more
Over the last six months, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has remained vigilant in pursuing cybersecurity-related fraud under its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative first announced in October 2021. As we have previously...more
For years, Department of Justice officials have stressed how important chief compliance officers are as the first line of defense in fighting corporate crimes. While that’s true, compliance programs now have a competitor in...more
On March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was signed into law to provide emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including in the form of forgivable loans to small...more
The federal government is continuing to rely heavily on whistleblowers in 2024. While there are now several federal whistleblower programs, the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act remain among the government’s most...more
Hosted by the C5 Group, the 18th Annual Conference on Anti-Corruption London will bring together the brightest minds in anti-corruption and compliance to review the most pressing multi-jurisdictional enforcement updates...more
Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Group investigates the latest federal whistleblower program, which offers individuals yet another avenue to report corporate misconduct....more
In 2020, when former President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law, the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) referred to previous guidance to indicate that businesses...more
Host Jonathan Porter welcomes Husch Blackwell’s Jody Rudman to this inaugural podcast episode to discuss the changing profile of whistleblowers in False Claims Act (FCA) litigation. Traditionally, relators, or...more
There are many junctures in the U.S. healthcare system that enable fraudulent activities, and one of the biggest has to do with pharmaceutical companies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of...more
Building on the recent passage of the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), at the American Bar Association’s 2024 National Institute on White Collar Crime conference in San Francisco earlier this month (2024 ABA...more
Hosted by the American Conference Institute, the 19th Annual FCPA & Anti-Corruption Conference for the Life Sciences Industry returns for another exciting year with carefully researched programming based on critical findings...more
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to enhance its tougher-on-corporate-crime policy stance as first announced by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in 2021. In remarks on March 7 and March 8, DAG Monaco and Acting...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement statistics for FY 2023 and identified key priorities for FCA enforcement in 2024 and beyond. The DOJ continues to pursue FCA...more