Jan 18, 2022 | Government Affairs
Some establishments located in the City of Atlanta had difficulty renewing their alcohol licenses before the annual deadline of December 31, 2021. To address this problem, on January 10, 2022, City of Atlanta Councilmember Michael Julian Bond introduced legislation...
Jan 12, 2022 | Business Litigation
Attorneys Jeremy Berry and Andrew Mason recently obtained a significant court victory for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (“MARTA”) in defense of a multi-million dollar contract award for Transit and Digital Advertising. MARTA issued a Request for...
Jan 11, 2022 | SEC Investigations
On January 6, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had filed charges against an Australian businessman, Craig Sproule, and his two companies, Crowd Machine, Inc. and Metavine, Inc., alleging that they had made materially false and misleading...
Jan 11, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On January 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of Dr. Anita L. Jackson. The indictment primarily relates to the provision of balloon sinuplasty. According to Johns Hopkins, balloon sinuplasty is a minimally invasive treatment for chronic...
Jan 5, 2022 | Fraud Investigations, White Collar Crime
In early December 2021, CG attorneys wrote about a Georgia man sentenced to two years in prison for CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia prosecuted the case. Recently, the DOJ...
Jan 4, 2022 | Fraud Investigations
On January 3, a jury in San Jose, CA, returned a guilty verdict, convicting Elizabeth Holmes of four federal fraud charges for deceiving investors on what her blood testing company’s machines could do, how much money the company could earn, and how widely the...
Dec 29, 2021 | White Collar Crime
On December 21, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the conviction of Dr. Charles Lieber, a Harvard University Professor known to many as a superstar of science, for making false statements and for tax offenses. Dr. Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s...
Dec 29, 2021 | False Claims Act
On December 22, the Department of Justice announced that it had reached a global resolution with Department of Defense housing contractor Balfour Beatty Communities LLC (BBC) resolving claims that BBC had defrauded the United States armed forces. BBC operated...
Dec 29, 2021 | Government Investigations
Since COVID-19, telehealth/telemedicine has experienced significant growth, largely due to its expansions and waivers. Specifically, CMS temporarily waived some requirements that providers typically must follow to bill for telehealth services (e.g., the requirement...
Dec 20, 2021 | False Claims Act
The False Claims Act (“FCA”) prohibits the submission of a false claim for payment to the United States government, or the making of a false statement to the United States government to get a claim paid by the government. Furthermore, an employee who suffers adverse...
