Apr 19, 2023 | White Collar Crime
On Thursday, April 13, 2023, nine co-conspirators were sentenced to various prison terms for their respective roles in a fraud scheme in which they submitted false claims to Tricare and the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. John Cruise and his wife, LaShonia...
Mar 8, 2023 | White Collar Crime
On March 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the first insider trading prosecution based exclusively on Rule 10b5-1 Trading plans. As stated plainly in a Harvard Law School post, “Rule 10b5-1 plans are passive investment schemes (plan holders relinquish...
Mar 6, 2023 | White Collar Crime
On October 14, 2022, a federal jury convicted the former City of Atlanta Commissioner of Watershed Management, Jo Ann Macrina, of conspiracy and federal program bribery for accepting bribes from an Atlanta contractor in exchange for steering city business worth...
Feb 17, 2023 | White Collar Crime
On March 16, 2022, a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, returned an indictment charging two individuals and four companies with participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs sold on the Amazon Marketplace. On February 13, the...
Feb 14, 2023 | White Collar Crime
On February 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that twenty-three individuals were charged for their alleged participation in a large Medicare fraud scheme. The alleged scheme involved patient recruiters, physicians, at least one lab, and two...
Feb 7, 2023 | White Collar Crime
Individuals and businesses doing business with or submitting claims to the U.S. Government may face False Claims Act (“FCA”) culpability for several reasons – including keeping overpayments, or as in a recent case, retaining PPP loan funds. 31 U.S.C. 3729(a)(1)(G). ...
