Feb 3, 2022 | Election Law
Last May, Governor Brian Kemp signed into law Senate Bill 221 (SB221), which created a new type of political committee called “leadership committees” that can accept unlimited contributions and make unlimited expenditures during the 2022 election cycle and in future...
Jan 31, 2022 | Fraud Investigations
On January 26, the Department of Justice announced the 5-year prison sentence of a Mississippi pharmacist for a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE and private insurance companies. David “Jason” Rutland was found to have paid kickbacks to distributors for...
Jan 31, 2022 | Fraud Investigations
On January 24, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of Joseph Schwartz, an insurance broker and the former owner of Skyline Healthcare, a network of healthcare and rehabilitation facilities. Schwartz faces 22 federal charges of labor violations and...
Jan 31, 2022 | Government Investigations
On January 26, the Department of Justice announced that Tal Prihar, an Israeli national residing in Brazil, was sentenced to 97 months in prison for operating DeepDotWeb (“DDW”). DDW was a news site dedicated to events surrounding the dark web, but also connected...
Jan 27, 2022 | False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations
The False Claims Act is one of the federal government’s most useful tools in rooting out and remedying fraud against the United States by government contractors and healthcare providers. The statutory scheme allows for treble damages and civil penalties against those...
