Aug 9, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On August 5, President Biden signed two bills into law that extend to ten years the statute of limitations for civil and criminal enforcement actions for fraud on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL). These are programs...
Aug 9, 2022 | Health Care, Health Care Fraud
The DOJ just announced the conviction of, Jaroslava Ruiz, for her role in a scheme that defrauded private health insurers of approximately $34.6 million. Ruiz, of Chapel Hill, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud and 10...
Aug 8, 2022 | False Claims Act, Government Investigations
Biogen IDEC, Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company, agreed to pay $900 million to resolve alleged violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and False Claims Act (FCA). The agreement was made days before the trial – which was...
Aug 3, 2022 | False Claims Act
On July 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release noting that Biotronik Inc. greed to pay $12.95 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute. The federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) and the...
