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Eager to enlist corporations as “allies in [its] fight against crime,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, expansions to the Criminal Division’s...

Northern District of Illinois convicted Chicago man yesterday for participating in conspiracy to pay approximately $25 million illegal kickbacks to generate business for durable medical equipment pharmacy. Mark Sorensen, 53, worked at Symed, a Chicago pharmacy paid for kickbacks.

Two years into the Biden Administration, it is clear the DOJ has made corporate compliance and anti-fraud efforts a top priority. DOJ has introduced new methods of measuring and enforcing compliance. Assistant Attorney General Ken Polite speaks at NYU Program on Corporate Compliance.

On January 17, 2023, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. delivered remarks to an audience at the Georgetown University Law Center, announcing changes to the Criminal...

A Colorado physician was convicted for misappropriating around $250,000 from two federal COVID-19 relief programs.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to try to dispel lingering skepticism over the benefits of corporate disclosure and cooperation. In remarks delivered on January 17,...

Advanced Bionics LLC, a Valencia, California-based manufacturer of cochlear implant system devices, has agreed to pay more than $12 million to resolve allegations that it misled federal health care programs regarding the radio-frequency emissions generated by some of its cochlear implant processors.

After a verdict of the US Court, $17 million will be distributed among 800 fraud victims of the BitConnect Crypto Ponzi Scheme.

With the two-year mark of the Biden presidency looming, the administration's approach to prosecuting and investigating entities and individuals in the life sciences industry has begun...

An employee of a U.S. Army lodging facility in Seoul pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu to charges of conspiring with a co-worker to divert the proceeds from cardboard and cooking oil recycling to their personal bank accounts.