Jun 21, 2023 | False Claims Act
On June 16, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued a crucial decision in the case of United States el rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al. In this landmark ruling, Justice Elena Kagan, writing for an eight to one majority, resolved a circuit...
Jun 7, 2023 | False Claims Act
In a previous blog post, the attorneys at Chilivis Grubman wrote about two consolidated cases that were pending before the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”), U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc. and U.S. ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway, relating to the proper scienter...
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...
May 17, 2023 | White Collar Crime
The DOJ announced that Kelly McCallum pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances and one count of health care fraud. McCallum was an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) operating Convenient Care Clinic in Dyersburg, Tennessee....
May 17, 2023 | False Claims Act
On Monday, May 15, 2023, U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright entered judgment against Defendants Precision Lens and its owner Paul Ehlen in the amount of $487 million for violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”). In February...
May 17, 2023 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
On May 9, the Department of Justice announced Joseph James O’Connor, a 23-year-old U.K. citizen, pleaded guilty in New York to his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter. O’Connor, aka...
