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A now-former employee stole $8.2 million worth of HIV medications from a New Jersey veterans hospital pharmacy that she sold to a fence from Bergen County, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Surveillance video showed pharmacy technician Lisa M. Hoffman of Orange “regularly taking dozens of bottles of HIV medications from the shelves of the outpatient pharmacy at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in East Orange, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said.
The video then shows her “placing them in a white mail bin, and then transferring the medications from the mail bin to her bag and exiting with the stolen medication,” the U.S. attorney said.
LITIGATION DEVELOPMENTS
Individual Prosecutions Down But Corporate Resolutions Steady
for DOJ s Fraud Section in 2020, with More in the Pipeline
The Department of Justice s ( DOJ ) Fraud Section
recently released a year-in-review report that shows the
section s strong performance in 2020, despite challenges caused
by the global pandemic. Although individual prosecutions were down
approximately 30% from 2019, the number of corporate resolutions
remained steady. The report also emphasizes the section s rapid
response to fraud in connection with the Paycheck Protection
Program and highlights one of the largest-ever National Health Care
Fraud and Prescription Opioid Takedowns.
In 2020, the Fraud Section charged 326 individuals across its
three litigation units: the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Who Needs to Know
Why It Matters
As evidenced in the recently published 2020 Year in Review Report (Report), the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section (Fraud Section) demonstrated its resilience despite the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as its swift response to the evolution of pandemic-induced fraud a trend we expect will continue throughout 2021.
As evidenced in the recently published 2020 Year in Review Report (Report), the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section (Fraud Section) demonstrated its resilience despite the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as its swift response to the evolution of pandemic-induced fraud a trend we expect will continue throughout 2021.
Several areas of COVID-19-related fraud have emerged throughout the past year the most prominent associated with personal protective equipment (PPE), COVID-19 testing, and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) which DOJ has successfully prosecuted under price gouging, health care, and securities fraud laws.
Monday, March 8, 2021
On February 24, 2021, DOJ’s Criminal Division Fraud Section published its annual year-end summary (available here). The Fraud Section focuses on prosecuting white-collar crime. The report summarizes enforcement activity in the past year and discusses notable cases from the Fraud Section’s three litigation units: (1) the Health Care Fraud (HCF) Unit; (2) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit; and (3) the Market Integrity and Major Frauds (MIMF) Unit. In summarizing the Fraud Section’s main achievements from 2020, the report also provides valuable insights on what lies ahead for the Fraud Section in 2021. This post focuses on the health care enforcement portion of the Fraud Section’s report.
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