Jan 11, 2022 | SEC Investigations
On January 6, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had filed charges against an Australian businessman, Craig Sproule, and his two companies, Crowd Machine, Inc. and Metavine, Inc., alleging that they had made materially false and misleading...
Jan 11, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On January 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of Dr. Anita L. Jackson. The indictment primarily relates to the provision of balloon sinuplasty. According to Johns Hopkins, balloon sinuplasty is a minimally invasive treatment for chronic...
Jan 5, 2022 | Fraud Investigations, White Collar Crime
In early December 2021, CG attorneys wrote about a Georgia man sentenced to two years in prison for CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia prosecuted the case. Recently, the DOJ...
Jan 4, 2022 | Fraud Investigations
On January 3, a jury in San Jose, CA, returned a guilty verdict, convicting Elizabeth Holmes of four federal fraud charges for deceiving investors on what her blood testing company’s machines could do, how much money the company could earn, and how widely the...
Dec 29, 2021 | White Collar Crime
On December 21, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the conviction of Dr. Charles Lieber, a Harvard University Professor known to many as a superstar of science, for making false statements and for tax offenses. Dr. Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s...
