Jun 26, 2023 | White Collar Crime
In January 2023, Dr. Francis F. Joseph was convicted of theft in connection with healthcare and wire fraud for misappropriating nearly $250,000 from COVID-19 relief programs. The DOJ just announced that Dr. Joseph has been sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison....
Jun 26, 2023 | False Claims Act
The U.S. Department of Justice has reported the conviction of a Chief Compliance Officer in a massive Medicare fraud scheme. According to the DOJ’s press release, a high-ranking healthcare executive, Steven King, was found guilty of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme...
Jun 26, 2023 | Government Investigations
On June 14, the Department of Justice announced that Julian Russ, the Chief Financial Officer of a Mississippi company, pleaded guilty to willfully failing to report and pay over employment taxes withheld from employees’ paychecks. Russ was the CFO of Community...
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,...
