May 30, 2023 | White Collar Crime
On May 19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the charging of a Nevada man for his alleged participation in CoinDeal, an investment fraud scheme that purportedly defrauded more than 10,000 people of over $45 million. Bryan Lee, of Las Vegas, made his initial...
May 30, 2023 | False Claims Act
On May 25, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Vasso Godiali, a Michigan vascular surgeon, was sentenced to 6.5 years (80 months) in prison following a plea agreement. Dr. Godiali pled guilty to defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers by...
May 30, 2023 | False Claims Act
On May 25, 2023, U.S. District Judge R. Stan Baker denied motions to dismiss a False Claims Act (“FCA”) suit brought by two whistleblowers over an alleged medical kickback scheme. The whistleblowers filed a qui tam suit in the Southern District of Georgia in 2018,...
May 30, 2023 | Employment Law
The DOJ announced that 10 additional employers have agreed to pay civil penalties for posting job advertisements that discriminated against non-U.S. citizens on Georgia Institute of Technology’s (Georgia Tech) job recruitment platform. Since June 2022, the DOJ has...
