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On August 1, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division introduced its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Program), which, like a modern-day Western posse, aims to bring justice to the wild frontier...more
Since the pandemic, COVID-19-related fraud has been a consistent target of the Department of Justice....more
The Development: On August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice's ("DOJ") Criminal Division announced its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program ("Pilot Program"), designed to reward whistleblowers who report information...more
In March, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a pilot program to incentivize individualized reporting was in development, which we reviewed here. True to its word, the DOJ's "Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot...more
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Program). The Program—which will last for three years—is designed to incentivize, through money awards,...more
On August 1, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the launch of DOJ’s Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Pilot Program). The Pilot Program, previewed by Monaco in March 2024, provides another avenue...more
On August 1, 2024, the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, Nicole Argentieri, unveiled the highly anticipated details of DOJ’s Corporate Whistleblower...more
Private equity investment in health care has grown significantly over the past two decades, and the US government is starting to pay attention. Recent announcements by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and proposals by...more
One avenue for whistleblowers to take to report fraud against the government is to file a qui tam lawsuit under the federal False Claims Act. These lawsuits are complex because they have not two, but three parties to them –...more
A jury convicted Defendant of health care fraud offenses after a series of delays in her trial date, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a Superseding Indictment that was filed 11 weeks before trial. During these delays,...more
On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”), along with other federal and state law enforcement partners, announced...more
On 22 February 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published the statistics for federal civil fraud recoveries in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The DOJ announced that the “government and whistleblowers were party to 543...more
The healthcare industry relies heavily on whistleblowers to bring fraudulent conduct and other forms of waste and abuse to the attention of regulators, law enforcement, and the public in general. If you have found signs of...more
Introduction: On April 15, 2024, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division announced a new Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosure for Individuals. Under this program, individuals who voluntarily disclose certain...more
The Boston Bar Association hosted its fifth annual White Collar Crime Conference on May 2, 2024, featuring prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts (the Office) and the Office of the...more
On May 2, 2024, the Boston Bar Association (BBA) held its fifth annual White-Collar Crime Conference, featuring panel discussions with current and former prosecutors at the state and federal levels, defense counsel, and...more
We often work with valuation experts to ensure compensation payments between healthcare organizations and physicians are fair market value and commercially reasonable for purposes of compliance with the Stark Law and the...more
Drawing on a carrot and stick approach, Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) guidance in 2023 focused heavily on incentivizing companies to voluntarily self-disclose their misconduct. This guidance included the...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
This week, Heather and Lauren welcome more members of the Maynard Nexsen team, White Collar attorneys Erica Barnes, Mark Moore, and Christian Dysart. The group takes a deep dive into discussing white-collar crime in the...more
Qui tam relators and the U.S. Department of Justice continue to expand usage of the False Claims Act....more
On 22 February 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published its report (Report) announcing civil recoveries under the False Claims Act (FCA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The recoveries for FY 2023 exceeded US$2.68...more
On February 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its False Claims Act (FCA) statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2023. Using DOJ’s FY 2023 Data Table and our analysis from previous years, MoFo’s FCA team...more
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) annual False Claims Act (FCA) press release revealed that it increased self-initiated investigations for the federal fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, by 1.5 times over the prior year....more
This is the second in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more