Mar 16, 2021 | White Collar Crime
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Division announced in a March 8, 2021 press release that it had charged four individuals who allegedly falsified clinical trial data. The charges include conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering,...
Mar 16, 2021 | False Claims Act
On Friday, March 12, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case of United States of America, ex. rel. Michele Yates v. Pinellas Hematology & Oncology, P.A., where the defendant argued that the judgment entered against it in a...
Mar 15, 2021 | Healthcare Transactions
On March 1, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ceased its efforts to block a $599 million health system merger in Philadelphia after losing its bid in court to stop the deal between Jefferson Health (Jefferson) and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (Einstein). ...
Mar 9, 2021 | SEC Investigations
In a press release on March 5, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that it had charged AT&T and three of its executives with violations of Regulation FD. Regulation FD was first promulgated by the SEC in 2000 in order to curtail...
