Federal Fraud Charges

Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has filed health care fraud charges against 601 people, including 165 doctors and medical professionals. They are being charged them with an array of crimes in additional to health care fraud charges, including illegally prescribing drugs. The arrests were the result of a nationally coordinated health care…

The Department of Justice has recently announced another guilty plea in a federal criminal case alleging that a real estate investor was involved in “bid rigging” by agreeing to partner with other real estate investors to purchase foreclosed properties at a public auction. The Department has announced that 55 people so far have agreed to…

Yesterday, the Justice Department announced the filing of seven civil and criminal “business opportunity fraud” cases in five states. The government is calling the series of actions a “sweep” although the cases seem to be unrelated. However, the cases were all investigated by the Justice Department through the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force and…

On Monday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the indictment of two executives of a Lawrenceville company on federal charges of conspiracy to evade U.S. “anti-dumping” duties on paper produced in China and bribery of foreign officials. The company, Apego Inc., is a major supplier of lined notebook paper for schools. Federal prosecutors allege that executives of…

Federal attorneys writing for the National Law Journal have speculated that Russia is the next frontier for enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a federal statute prohibiting corrupt activity by U.S. businesses and their employees in foreign countries. According to the authors, FCPA prosecutions have been increasing substantially in recent years, and the Department…