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  • False Claims Act – Qui Tam Law

    Check out A. Brian Albritton's, False Claims Act & Qui Tam Law Blog – Recent news and cases concerning the False Claims Act, Qui Tams, whistleblowers, and other related collateral proceedings.

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  • In the News & Around the Blogopshere

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    Bruce Alpert, Times-Picayune, William Jefferson has chance to shed 4 guilty counts, experts say

    Jason Turbow, NYTimes, Bonds Avoids Prison Time for Giving Evasive Testimony

    Jenna Greene, BLT Blog, SEC Charges Six Former Fannie and Freddie Executives with Securities Fraud

    Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, Judge Rules For DOJ In Suit Over Politicized Hiring (w/ a hat tip to Ivan Dominguez)

    Steven Erlanger, NYTimes, Chirac Found Guilty in Political Funding Case

    DOJ Press Release, Texas Oil Company Sentenced to Pay $12 Million for Clean Air Act and Obstruction Crimes in Louisiana -Sentence Is the Largest-Ever Criminal Fine in Louisiana for Air Pollution

     Forbes, Financial Crimes Up 47% Since '08 Crisis: FBI

    Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, Judge Chides Prosecutors In FCPA Case Over Secret Notes

    Tom Huddleston Jr., AMLaw Daily, Ex-Am Law Associate Kluger Pleads Guilty in $37 Million Insider Trading Scheme

    DOJ Press Release, Three Patient Recruiters for Miami Home Health Companies Sentenced to Prison in $25 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

    Michael Volkov, Punishing the Wrongdoer: Environmental Crimes and the Lack of Criminal Intent

    Bloomberg, Jordan Thomas on Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program Report

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    DOJ Press Release, Eight Former Senior Executives and Agents of Siemens Charged in Alleged $100 Million Foreign Bribe Scheme

    Law.com, The Recorder,  Ginny Laroe, 9th Circuit to Consider Whether Employees' Computer Misuse is a Federal Crime

    Amanda Bronstad, NNLJ, law.com, Government misconduct in FCPA prosecution cited in related case

    Sheri Qualters, NLJ, At 1st Circuit, two ex-lawyers appeal mortgage fraud convictions

    DOJ Press Release, FORMER NEW YORK CON ED MANAGER SENTENCED TO SERVE 70 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR FRAUD, BRIBERY AND TAX CRIMES –Manager Also Sentenced to Pay Criminal Fine And Restitution to Con Ed

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    Christopher Matthews, WSJ, Catnip For Compliance Officers

    Robert J. Anello & Robert G. Morvillo, N.Y.L.J., Media: Defendant's Friend or Foe?

    DOJ Press Release, Owner of Miami-Area Mental Health Company Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for Orchestrating $205 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

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  • Congress Considers New Limits on Its Members

    The New York Times yesterday wrote that in the wake of a CBS 60 Minutes report which said that members of Congress bought stock in companies while considering legislation that might affect those companies, Congress is considering laws banning such trading.  The CBS report said none of the trading was illegal at the time.  See here.

    The 60 Minutes report said that the current chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), then the ranking Republican on the committee, bet stock prices would fall at the time he was being briefed privately that a global financial crisis might be imminent.  According to the Times, at that time Congressman Bachus' office denied he had used nonpublic information as a basis for trading.

    I do not venture to assess whether any Congressperson traded on inside information.  I am also generally opposed to "new laws" since most are unnecessary and duplicative.  Nonetheless, I see no reason that Congress should not be held to the same standard as private businesses or citizens.  I also suggest consideration that a new statute, a mirror image to 18 U.S.C. 1001, which criminalizes a false statement to a government official, be enacted prohibiting false statements by a government official to the public.

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg, Rajaratnam Seeks to Remain Free While Appealing Wiretap Use

    Mark Hamblett, NYLJ, Lawyer Suspect Who Fled to Asia to Be Extradited (w/ a hat tip to Ivan Dominguez)

    DOJ Press Release, Former Massachusetts Scientist and Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Federal Grant Fraud

    Tom Fowler, Houston Chronicle, Enron case was much bigger than FBI agent first thought

    D. Daniel Sokol, Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, Corporate Compliance – Enron and Sarbanes Oxley (To Music)

    DOJ Press Release, Former Indianapolis City-County Councilman Sentenced for Soliciting a Bribe and Attempted Extortion

    DOJ Press Release, Maryland-Based Viable Communications, Its Owner and a Former Executive Sentenced for Roles in $20 Million Fraud Scheme

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    DOJ Press Release, New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty in $670 Million Fraud Scheme

    Editorial, LATimes, Defending the Brady Rule

    Andrew Stern, Reuters, Former Obama fundraiser Rezko gets 10-year sentence

    DOJ Press Release, U.S. Pharmaceutical Company Merck Sharp & Dohme to Pay Nearly One Billion Dollars Over Promotion of Vioxx® – Merck to Pay $950 Million for Illegal Marketing

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    Michael Rothfeld, WSJ, No Mr. Nice Guy—Just Ask Wall Street

    Mike Salinero, Tampa Tribune, Jury convicts White of 7 corruption counts

    FCPA Professor, ABA Ponders FCPA Reform

    Tamer El-Ghobashy, WSJ, Prosecutors Lose Corruption Case

    Lisa Prager, Forbes, Live From the International Bar in Dubai: Export Controls, Economic Realities and Considerations

    Sheri Qualters, NLJ,1st Circuit denies bail to former Massachusetts House speaker

    Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg, U.S. Prosecutors Seek Delay in SEC Case Against Rajat Gupta

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    Associate Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer Speaks at the 26th National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("Just two weeks ago, we secured the longest prison sentence -15 years- ever imposed in an FCPA case.")
     
    Reuters, Rajaratnam ordered to pay $92.8 million in SEC case 

    DOJ Press Release, Brooklyn, N.Y., Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 12 Individuals for Participating in Health Care Fraud Schemes Totaling More Than $95 Million

    DOJ Press Release, Owner of Miami Company Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Scheme to Defraud the U.S. Export-Import Bank

     Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post, $3 billion settlement expected in GlaxoSmithKline drug-marketing probe (hat tip to Tiffany Joslyn)

    DOJ Press Release, Owner of Houston Health Care Company Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison in Connection with $1.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

    DOJ Press Release, Miami-Area Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in $25 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

    DOJ Press Release, Former “Most Wanted” Health Care Fraud Fugitives Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for $9.1 Million Detroit Medicare Fraud Scheme

    PennLive.com (AP),  Ex-owner of Pennsylvania juvenile detention centers gets 18 months in 'kids for cash' scandal
     
    Ryan Haggerty, Chicago Tribune, Attorney: Blagojevich to make statement at sentencing

    Peter Lattman, Dealbook,NYTimes, Raj Rajaratnam Assigned to Massachusetts Prison  

    Jane Crosby, Star Tribune, UnitedHealth hires top white-collar crime fighter

    Branden Goyette, ProPublica, Cheat Sheet: What’s Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis

    Anthony J. Franze & R. Stanton Jones, Bloomberg, Silencing a Watchdog: Government Seeks to Muzzle Amicus in John Edwards Prosecution

    US Attorney's Office District of New Jersey, LUCCHESE ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY MEMBER AND ASSOCIATE AMONG 13 ARRESTED, CHARGED FOR RACKETEERING AND OTHER OFFENSES, INCLUDING ILLEGAL TAKEOVER OF PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY – Attorneys and Accountant Also Charged as Members of Racketeering Enterprise

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