May 7, 2020 | COVID-19 Related Law, Fraud Investigations, Government Investigations, White Collar Crime
In recent blog posts, we have written about the risk of government scrutiny that comes with receipt of paycheck protection program (PPP) funds under the CARES Act. For example, on April 7, we wrote about the creation of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic...
Nov 26, 2019 | White Collar Crime
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have published a memorandum of understanding related to violations by Federal Housing Administration (FHA) lenders. Citing a shared goal of addressing FHA program requirements and...
Oct 23, 2019 | White Collar Crime
Federal sentencing, including the imposition of fines and penalties against corporate defendants, are governed by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Under some circumstances, the Guidelines allow fines to be reduced if a company demonstrates that it cannot afford to...
Aug 27, 2019 | White Collar Crime
In 2016, Stop Illinois Health Care Fraud, LLC, brought a case against Asif Sayeed, Physician Care Services, S.C., Vital Home & Healthcare, Inc., and Management Principles, Inc. (MPI) under the qui tam (whistleblower) provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA),...
Jul 25, 2019 | White Collar Crime
On July 17, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Miami-Luken, Inc., a pharmaceutical distributor. The indictment has garnered attention due to the named defendants and the allegations. Besides Miami-Luken, the indictment named individually (1)...
Jun 27, 2019 | White Collar Crime
Last month, Mr. Roderic Bain, the owner of over a dozen durable medical equipment companies, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and ordered to pay over $1.9 million in fines for submitting over $10 million in claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary...
