Wicked Coin: The "Fat Leonard" Scandal
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: Deep Dive into The Gunvor FCPA Settlement
Episode 307 -- Sanctions Enforcement Review and Predictions for 2024
Episode 300 -- Deep Dive into DOJ FCPA Settlement with Two U.K. Reinsurance Companies for Bribery in Ecuador
Episode 296 -- Deep Dive into Clear Channels SEC Settlement of FCPA Violations
Episode 294 -- Catch Up on OFAC Enforcement: 3M and Emigrant Bank
The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network: An In-Depth Conversation
Season 2 - Episode 2 - A Whistleblowers Nightmare: The Uncovering of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad Scandal
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Varsity Blues Reversals Turn DOJ Red
Corruption, Crime, and Compliance - The Ericsson FCPA DPA Breach Settlement
Episode 258 -- Deep Dive into ABB FCPA Settlement
Corruption Crime & Compliance - Deep Dive into the ABB FCPA Case
Life with GDPR - The ABB Enforcement Action from a UK Perspective
The Corruption Files - Episode 15 - The ABB Settlement
The Line Between Gift Giving and Bribery
The Corruption Files - Episode 14 - Walmart with Tom Fox and Michael DeBernardis
Compliance Into The Weeds - Lafarge and the Cost of Moral Bankruptcy
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 21: "Interview with Drago Kos of the OECD Working Group on Bribery"
The Justice Insiders: FIFA Corruption Trial – Will the Feds Score Another Goal?
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 5 - Doing Business Overseas: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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
DOJ Launches Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program - On August 1, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the details of its new Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program. According to the DOJ, the...more
The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more
On February 27, a Minnesota federal court jury ruled in the favor of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a False Claims Act (FCA) case based on allegations of Anti-kickback Statute (AKS) violations. The focus of the case...more
The Justice Department continues to pile up healthcare enforcement actions — false claims, anti-kickback, and fraud. DOJ is on its way to a record year....more
Federal and state enforcement activity involving pharmacy fraud tops the list of categories in this edition of Rivkin Rounds’ Fraud Week. We’ll list just a sampling of cases....more
Medical Technology Company President Convicted for Participation in $77 Million COVID-19 and Allergy Testing Scheme - On September 1, 2022, the president of Arrayit Corporation, a medical technology company in Silicon...more
The following is a summary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported are...more
On July 20, 2022, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert cautioning physicians and other health care practitioners to use “heightened scrutiny” when entering into telemedicine arrangements that...more
On July 20, 2022, the Department of Justice announced charges against 36 criminal defendants across 13 different federal districts for healthcare fraud violations resulting in Government losses in excess of $1.2 billion. The...more
A jury convicted Defendant of tax fraud after he underreported his cash income from two of his pharmacies. Defendant argued on appeal that the affidavit in support of his search warrant was defective because it contained...more
DOJ and Treasury Announce Multilateral Russian Oligarch Task Force Called “REPO” - On March 16, 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen met with representatives from Australia,...more
On August 2, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Arriva Medical LLC (Arriva), once the nation’s largest Medicare mail-order diabetic testing supplier, and its parent company, Alere Inc., have agreed to...more
A False Claims Act case can easily turn into a criminal prosecution. The Federal Bureau of Investigation often initiates criminal investigations as part of its commitment to reducing health care fraud....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
Deutsche Bank to Pay Over $130 Million to Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Fraud Allegations - Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (Deutsche Bank) has agreed to pay more than $130 million to resolve the government’s...more
DOJ Announces Charges Against 345 Defendants in Historic Nationwide Health Care Fraud and Opioid Takedown - The DOJ announced a nationwide enforcement action charging 345 defendants across 51 federal districts with...more
Engineering Firm Settles $37 Million False Claims Act Allegations - As part of a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice, QuantaDyn Corporation has agreed to pay $37,757,713.91 in restitution to resolve...more
The United States government has an arsenal of agencies and civil and criminal statutes at its disposal to choose from in investigating and combatting healthcare fraud. A recent federal indictment discussed below exemplifies...more
Medical Device Exec Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison for $4.6 Million Kickback Scheme, Co-Conspirator Awaits Sentencing - On August 29, the Department of Justice announced that a Tennessee health care executive, Brenda...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - The General Services Administration (GSA) implemented a new process in SAM that allows non-federal entity registrants to submit common federal government-wide Representations and Certifications for...more
On October 30, 2018, Skadden hosted its Eighth Annual Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Enforcement and Litigation Seminar in New York City, which focused on U.S. enforcement issues faced by companies throughout the industry....more
The Justice Department has continued to pursue healthcare fraud and bribery criminal prosecutions. Healthcare fraud remains a high priority for criminal enforcement....more
Insider Trading: Once More Into the Breach - Why it matters: On Aug. 23, 2017, the Second Circuit decided U.S. v. Martoma, in which the court affirmed a tippee’s conviction in an insider trading case based on the Supreme...more