May 13, 2025 | Criminal Matters, DOJ, Government Investigations, Health Care Fraud, White Collar Crime
On May 12, 2025, Matthew Galeotti, who heads the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) criminal division, released a memo addressed to all criminal division personnel entitled “Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against White-Collar Crime.”...
Mar 12, 2025 | DOJ, federal investigations, Fraud Investigations, Health Care Fraud, White Collar Crime
On March 10, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that two owners of a Florida-based clinical research facility pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with asthma drug trials. According to the DOJ, Angela...
Mar 11, 2025 | DOJ, federal investigations, Federal Tax Investigations, Fraud Investigations, White Collar Crime
The DOJ has announced its largest forfeiture in the history of the Department of Justice’s Health Care Fraud Unit. A Texas pharmacist, Dehshid “David” Nourian, has been sentenced to over 17 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $405 million in assets for...
Sep 15, 2024 | DOJ, False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Medicare and Medicaid
Late last week, the Department of Justice announced that Walgreen had agreed to pay over $106 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing government health care programs for prescriptions that were never dispensed. According to the...
Feb 9, 2024 | DOJ, False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud
Recently, as I scrolled through my Google News Alert email for “False Claims Act,” one government press release caught my eye. The title – “National Roofing Company Settles PPP Fraud Allegations for $9 Million” – while certainly noteworthy, was not what interested...
Mar 24, 2022 | Data Breach, DOJ, Fraud Investigations
On March 18, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced that Kevin Kirton, a computer consultant, had been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution of over $600,000. Kirton pled guilty...
