The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 20 - Pitfalls and Perils: Employee Retention Credit Enforcement Trends
Telehealth Risk Report: What the Government Found
Podcast: Hot Areas in COVID-19 Enforcement, Testing, and Funding - Diagnosing Health Care
Navigating Potential COVID Relief and Healthcare Fraud Issues
Health Care Practices: Can They Seek Employee Retention Credits Based on Harm Caused By COVID-19?
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - Not a Normal Mortgage Crisis: How the Mortgage Industry Weathered the Pandemic
Stephen Shaver on CARES Act Relief Funds and Healthcare Organizations
Labor & Employment Podcast Series, Biden’s First 100 Days: A Check-In for Employers.
Not a Normal Mortgage Crisis: How the Mortgage Industry Weathered the Pandemic
The Year Ahead: COVID-19's Impact on the Employee Benefits Value Proposition
PPP Loans: Frequently Asked Questions
Paycheck Protection Program – Common Questions and Updated Guidance
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: The Latest on Using and Reporting Your Provider Relief Funds
When Is Form 1099-C Required of Lenders? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 16]
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - New Round of COVID-19 Relief Expands Assistance for Employers
2021: The Year Ahead for Employers
PPP Loan Recipients at Risk: Part One
Slamming the door on 2020 and looking ahead to 2021
Dealing with The CARES Act and the Current Status of Offsets in Pennsylvania Workers Compensation
Nowhere to spend child care FSA funds
Since the pandemic, COVID-19-related fraud has been a consistent target of the Department of Justice....more
This is the ninth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year... The government had another busy year in 2023 investigating and prosecuting health...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
Home Health Care Owner Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme - This week, the owner of a home health company was sentenced to nine years in prison for orchestrating a nearly $2.8 million scheme...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
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
The Justice Department recently announced new charges, convictions and sentencings in its ongoing initiative to target pandemic-related fraud, emphasizing the government’s commitment to identify and hold accountable those who...more
The Department of Justice and the US Attorney offices around the country are continuing to be in hot pursuit of cases of fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 20, 2022, the Department of Justice announced a new...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
Since April 2020, through the CARES Act, the government has provided billions of dollars in emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering from the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including through...more
The Department of Justice announced in a February 1, 2022 press release (Press Release) that it obtained more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims in the fiscal year...more
Texas Man Sentenced to More Than Nine Years in Prison for COVID-19 Fraud Scheme - After pleading guilty to two charges of wire fraud and money laundering, a Texas man was sentenced to 110 months in prison for his scheme to...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
The U.S. Justice Department’s COVID-related health care fraud crackdown continues to intensify. On a single day in September 2021, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against 138 defendants in 31 federal...more
With billions of dollars distributed over the past 18 months through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, there was plenty of opportunity for fraudulent...more
In addition to the ever-growing number of fraud charges brought in connection with the SBA’s PPP program, recent indictments issued across the country in connection with Covid-19 unemployment benefits and economic injury...more
On April 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the first charges brought in connection with alleged fraud on the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program, administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more
This is the seventh in our First 100 Days series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the early days of the Biden administration. Our previous entry was on FCA enforcement. Up next, healthcare...more
Federal white-collar prosecutions declined considerably from 2010 to 2019, and likely fell even further last year after courts and government offices closed. But given the impending end of the pandemic, another surge of...more
If the Biden administration's early moves are any indicator, its Department of Justice (DOJ) is poised to devote more time and energy to the prosecution of white-collar crime than it did under the Trump administration, when...more
The False Claims Act is a powerful tool for government prosecutors to use against healthcare providers, and drug and device companies. The Trump Administration used the False Claims Act to attack the opioid industry and rein...more
Despite Decrease in 2020 False Claims Act Recoveries, Investigations and Litigation Expected to Rise Under the Biden Administration - As previously detailed by Arent Fox, total False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for the...more
On January 14, 2021, the Department of Justice provided its annual review of cases and recoveries under the False Claims Act. Through the end of fiscal year 2020 (ending September 30, 2020), total recoveries (across all...more
As COVID-19 continues to ravage the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently announced its new National Rapid Response Strike Force within the Health Care Fraud Unit to investigate and prosecute fraud cases...more