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Larry Freedman on Health Care Fraud and Abuse Enforcement
The Patton Boggs LLP partner discusses trends in the government's increasingly creative enforcement theories, which have broader implications for the conduct of corporate prosecutions.
Brian Whisler, a partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP and a former federal prosecutor, offers tips for corporate counsel responding to an investigation by the DOJ.
Richard Beckler recounts a storied career that includes helping to lead the Justice Department's Criminal Fraud Section in the 1970s at the dawn of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Dan Nardello, founder of Nardello & Co., discusses the trends fueling business investigations around the world, including in Africa. Nardello has recently opened an Africa practice.
Peter Unger, a partner at Arent Fox LLP, sits down with Main Justice's Mary Jacoby to discuss the new SEC Whistleblower Rules.
Kirk Ogrosky, a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, sits down with Just Anti-Corruption's Chris Matthews to discuss health care fraud enforcement.
John Chesley, an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, sits down with Just Anti-Corruption's Chris Matthews to discuss the "foreign official" challenege.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Michael Diamant discussed a study he co-authored on corporate monitors, published recently by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law.
Veeral Gosalia, a senior managing director of technology at FTI Consulting, sat down with Mary Jacoby to discuss Main Justice's upcoming complimentary webinar on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 1 p.m. EDT
Katie Atkinson and Andy Wise of Miller & Chevalier sit down with Mary Jacoby to discuss the upcoming release of the SEC Whistleblower rules as part of the Dodd Frank Act.
Jeffery B. Vaden, a partner with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP based in Houston, speaks with Main Justice's Mary Jacoby about strategies of negotiating with the Department of Justice.
"There are challenges to the long-standing assumption that privilege is inviolate," said Laura Flippin, a partner at DLA Piper in Washington.
London-based Robert Amaee of Covington & Burling LLP discusses the fast-changing landscape for enforcement of the U.K. Bribery Act.
HOW TO 'TROPICALIZE' COMPLIANCE: A client in Brazil once used that whimsical term to explain to Lee Dunst the need to tailor compliance programs to the local culture and way of doing business. The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner describes the lessons he's learned.
Companies conducting pre-acquisition due diligence on targets outside the United States need to be aware of expanded U.S. jurisdictional theories regarding anti-corruption laws, according to Fulbright & Jaworski LLP senior associate Anne Elkins Murray. Latin America, in particular, has certain red flags.
The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner says the Civil War era law has become an "all purpose anti-fraud statute," wIth its whistleblower principles now applying to securities law.
The Bingham McCutchen LLP partner said he hopes the SEC will require whistleblowers to take complaints to their employers before going to the agency under the new Dodd-Frank financial law.
Palmina Fava, a partner at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, says the agency has sent subpoenas to financial institutions, suggesting the probe may be more developed than the initial report of informal letters of inquiry indicated.
Miller & Chevalier Chartered member Homer Moyer says the future is about to get even more complicated for U.S. companies facing foreign bribery investigations.
A former counselor to Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer in the DOJ's Criminal Division, Fagell discusses whistleblowing, wiretaps and the department's desire to retain discretion in the handling of its cases.
Ray Sullivan, a leading import-export lawyer, says that American customs authorities are ramping up their anti-corruption efforts, focusing on cross-border transactions of companies that operate inside and outside the United States. He said the inquiries appear to be aimed at making possible referrals to the Justice Department.
Harry Clark, a leading international trade lawyer at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, says the U.S. government is closely scrutinizing the anti-corruption records of foreign companies whose attempts to buy big stakes in American firms come under national security review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS.
The international law partner at Patton Boggs LLP asks whether there should be more debate about the extraterritorial reach of U.S. laws like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or the newly enacted extractive industries disclosure requirement.
Patton Boggs LLP partner John Oberdorfer discusses the World Bank's increasingly stringent sanctions activity. The bank's efforts to root out corruption among contractors working on bank-financed projects is the subject of a Dec. 2 conference at the bank's headquarters in Washington, D.C..
Sidley Austin LLP's Tom Green recalls how he suddenly became, at age 33, the lead attorney for Watergate defendant Robert Mardian after the dramatic courtroom collapse from illness of former D.C. U.S. Attorney David Bress, Mardian's original lead counsel. First in a new series from Main Justice.
Explore the dynamics of a government negotiation as a fictional pharmaceutical company attempts to resolve legal jeopardy stemming from an aggressive search for new profits. (Left to right) Kirk Ogrosky, Jennifer Bragg, Steven Tyrrell, Daniel R. Miller, Jay Darden. Introduction by Gary F. Giampetruzzi, Pfizer Inc.
"Government Investigations for the Life Sciences," Philadelphia, Sept. 27-28, 2010.
"Government Investigations for the Life Sciences," Philadelphia, Sept. 27-28, 2010.
The defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor says it's too early to tell whether international anti-bribery enforcement will ultimately hurt or help U.S. companies. In Afghanistan, he notes, it's created a "political problem."
Sheppard Mullin LLP partner David Geneson said that because leaders in developing countries often require "deference, loyalty and direct accommodation" from advisers, prosecutors are likely to give extra scrutiny to foreign agents-turned-business consultants.
Main Justice founder Mary Jacoby talks with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Michael Diamant about Chinese hospitality and compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
UKRAINE: U.S. LAWYERS RUN CORRUPTION PROBE
Washington lawyer Plato Cacheris leads a June 9, 2010, news conference in Kiev. The government of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych hired a U.S. legal team to investigate the finances of the administration of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
IN FOCUS: AFGHANISTAN
Glenn Ware, co-leader of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Anti-Corruption and Corporate Intelligence practice, speaks with Main Justice Editor Mary Jacoby about corruption in conflict and post-conflict societies.
A BREAKTHROUGH IN UNDERSTANDING COMPLIANCE CREDIT. WilmerHale's Kimberly Parker says the U.S. Justice Department's public announcement last month that it would not prosecute investment bank Morgan Stanley on FCPA violations (while securing a guilty plea from an individual "rogue" employee) appears to be an attempt to signal DOJ's standards for compliance programs.
Mary B. Jacoby
Mary Jacoby is the founder of Main Justice and Editor-in-Chief of Just Anti-Corruption.
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- Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 64 Months in Prison on Child Pornography Charges
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- Former Navy Seaman Convicted in Child Pornography Case
- Dreamboard Member Found Guilty in Louisiana for Participating in International Criminal Network Organized to Sexually Exploit Children
- Former U.S. Army Captain Pleads Guilty to Theft of Government Property at Camp Speicher, Iraq
- Co-Owner of Detroit-Area Physical Therapy Company Sentenced to 48 Months for Medicare Fraud Scheme
- Owner of Houston Health Care Company Convicted of Defrauding Medicare
- Houston-Area Nurse Sentenced to 97 Months in Prison for Role in $5.2 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
- Arizona State Representative Charged with Bribery, Fraud, Attempted Extortion and Making False Statements
GOVERNMENT AND NGO SITES
- Anti-Corruption Portal of the Americas
- City of London Police
- GRECO
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Pacer (U.S. Court Documents)
- State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
- TRACE International
- Transparency International
- U.K. Courts
- U.K. Ministry of Justice
- U.K. Office of Fair Trading
- U.K. Serious Fraud Office
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of Justice FCPA Page
- U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- U.S. House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Litigation Releases
- U.S. Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- United Nations Convention Against Corruption
- World Bank Governance and Anti-Corruption
- World Economic Forum - Corruption Initiative