Aug 31, 2022 | White Collar Crime
William Britt is a former Statesboro City Councilman. Notably, he served on the City Council at a time when bars and underage drinking was a topic of controversy for the city. On April 13, Britt stood before Chief Judge Randal Hall of the U.S. District Court for the...
Aug 24, 2022 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
Chilivis Grubman recently discussed a data breach by OneTouchPoint, Inc., a business associate (“BA”) of several healthcare companies. One healthcare company (Aetna ACE) reported that the protected health information of 326,278 plan members was exposed because of the...
Aug 24, 2022 | Election Law
On August 19, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which had halted a lower court’s order finding that the way in which Georgia elects its Public Service Commissioners was discriminatory. Specifically, the District...
Aug 24, 2022 | Election Law
Previously we wrote about a candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), Patty Durand, who faced possible removal from the ballot because her PSC district (District 2) was redrawn to exclude the county in which she resided less than one year before the...
Aug 24, 2022 | Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants have received relatively intense scrutiny by courts in recent years, as lawmakers seek to balance employers’ and employees’ respective rights—restrictive covenants acknowledge that employers invest time and monetary resources in their employees’...
Aug 24, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On August 23, the Department of Justice announced a Tennessee state representative and his former chief of staff were arrested at their homes on criminal charges of conspiracy to commit theft from programs receiving federal funds; bribery and kickbacks concerning...
Aug 24, 2022 | False Claims Act
The Department of Justice just announced that Universal Helicopters Inc. (UHI) and Dodge City Community College (DC3) have agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act (FCA). It was alleged that UHI and DC3 falsely certified...
Aug 17, 2022 | Health Care, Health Care Fraud
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Ruan v. United States that clarified the mens rea requirement for those who manufacture, distribute, or dispense drugs and are subsequently prosecuted under the Controlled Substances Act, specifically 21 U.S.C....
Aug 17, 2022 | federal investigations
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was part of the CARES Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the PPP, the federal government made billions of dollars in forgivable loans to businesses that met certain criteria. COVID relief fund fraud has been a focus...
Aug 17, 2022 | White Collar Crime
With prescription drug abuse on the rise across the nation, there has been an apparent increase in the number of “pill mills” or clinics that prescribe controlled substances with little to no medical reasoning or examination. These clinics attract drug addicts and...
