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...
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 20, 2021 | White Collar Crime
On December 16, 2021, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that Leah and Michael Hagen had been sentenced to 151 months in prison and were ordered to pay approximately $27 million back to the government in restitution for their role in a Medicare kickback...
Dec 15, 2021 | False Claims Act, White Collar Crime
On December 8, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced that Brandon Ridge had been sentenced to two years in prison for fraudulently obtaining loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). Ridge had previously pled...
Dec 13, 2021 | Health Care, White Collar Crime
Since September 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has made several announcements related to former NFL players pleading guilty to defrauding healthcare and COVID-19 relief programs. For example, in September, Chilivis Grubman attorneys discussed former NFL...
Dec 2, 2021 | White Collar Crime
Mr. Tiyari Collins and Mrs. Farah Collins, a married couple, had pled guilty to tax fraud and fraud against COVID relief programs in an amount of at least $5.7 million in total. The fraud against the COVID relief programs was the result of fraudulent applications for...
