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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
DOJ Reports Nearly $3 Billion in FCA Settlements, Judgments for FY 2024 - On January 15, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act (FCA) totaled more than $2.9...more
New York City Mayor Eric Adams Charged for Accepting Foreign Bribes - On September 26, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bribery, and two counts of soliciting donations from...more
Former Congressman George Santos Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft - On August 19, former US Representative George Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of the...more
Teva and DOJ May Reach Settlement in Closely Watched AKS Lawsuit - On June 16, Teva Pharmaceuticals filed a request with the First Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to hold in abeyance its interlocutory appeal concerning...more
Cooperation Spares Former NBA Shooting Guard From Prison - Former National Basketball Association (NBA) shooting guard, Antoine Wright, was sentenced to time served after he pled guilty to conspiracy and aggravated...more
Former Healthcare Executives Convicted for Health Insurance Policy Fraud Scheme - Steven Dorfman, the former chief executive officer and owner of the Florida-based healthcare company Simple Health, and John Sand, a former...more
DC Federal Judge Dramatically Amplifies False Claims Act Damages Award - On January 16, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion agreeing in part with the federal...more
Arkansas Men Convicted in $18 Million Global Investment Fraud Conspiracy - A federal jury in the Western District of Arkansas convicted four men of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money...more
Recent Filings Shed Light on DOJ’s View of Supreme Court’s Recent FCA Ruling - On June 1, 2023, the US Supreme Court explained that an assessment of a defendant’s subjective beliefs — rather than what an objectively...more
Court Unseals Charges Alleging Nearly $15 Million in Fraudulent PPP Loans - Earlier this week, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging six...more
Surgeon To Pay Up to $43 Million for FCA Fraud - A Michigan vascular surgeon, Vasso Godiali, was sentenced to 80 months in prison for defrauding health care programs in connection with his submission of false claims for...more
Florida Doctor Receives 20-Year Prison Sentence for Substance Abuse Treatment Fraud - Following a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, a Florida doctor was sentenced to 20 years in prison for...more
Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries- Amici Seek Dismissal of Qui Tam Suit From High Court - Various medical, business and legal organizations are asking the US Supreme Court to...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
Jury Orders Eli Lilly To Pay $61 Million - A federal jury in Illinois found that, beginning around 2004, drug manufacturer Eli Lilly deliberately underpaid rebates to Medicare programs by excluding retroactive drug prices...more
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, Former Theranos President and COO, Found Guilty on All Twelve Fraud Counts in High-Profile Trial - On July 7, 2022, a federal jury in the Northern District of California found Ramesh “Sunny”...more
The Department of Justice recently announced that a home-health services company has agreed to pay over $45,000 to resolve alleged False Claims Act (“FCA”) violations. Professional Family Care Services, Inc. (“PFCS”), a North...more
CEO of Defunct Medical Testing Lab to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle FCA and AKS Case - Jae Lee, the former CEO of defunct Northwest Physicians Laboratory (NWPL), agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve allegations that he...more
On August 11, 2021, Sheng-Wen Cheng was sentenced to 72 months in prison for his alleged participation in multiple schemes related to Covid-19 pandemic loan fraud and securities fraud. Taiwanese National, Self-Proclaimed...more
After an eight-day trial, a federal jury convicted four California residents for their scheme to submit fraudulent loan applications seeking millions of dollars in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury...more
On June 15, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a False Claims Act (FCA) suit against Paksn Inc., Prema Thekkek and one of its owners, and seven skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) owned by Thekkek and/or operated by...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
Sixth Circuit Splits with Tenth, Holds False Claims Act Anti-Retaliation Provision Extends to Post-Employment Retaliation - On March 31, 2021, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit addressed an issue of first...more
Soon after Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) in March 2020, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) moved quickly to address potential COVID-19 related...more
DOJ’s 2020 False Claims Act Recoveries Lowest Since 2008 - On January 14, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it obtained more than $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving...more