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D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Laura Zell

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Elizabeth Satarov

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Rebecca W. Foreman

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D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Peter R. Zeidenberg, Michael F. Dearington

The concept of materiality is critical in criminal fraud and false statement cases, as well as civil fraud cases, because it is what distinguishes harmless misrepresentations from consequential ones.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

Randall A. Brater, D. Jacques Smith, Nadia Patel

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Michael F. Dearington

The Department of Justice recently announced a new initiative that aims to hold government contractors accountable when they fail to meet required cybersecurity standards. 

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Laura Zell

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Elizabeth Satarov

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Rebecca W. Foreman

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Nadia Patel

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Nadia Patel

The New York Attorney General’s office announced that drugmaker Endo Health Solutions has agreed to pay $50 million dollars to resolve a lawsuit brought by the state of New York as well as two New York counties alleging that Endo (and other major drug manufacturers) improperly marketed and sold pres

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Nadia Patel

A group of New Jersey home health care companies (collectively, the BAYADA Companies), have agreed to pay $17 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Laura Zell

John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) agreed to pay more than $3.3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by upcoding hundreds of claims submitted to federal healthcare programs.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Elizabeth Satarov

A Florida owner of telemedicine companies is charged with orchestrating a health care fraud and illegal kickback scheme that involved the submission of over $784 million in false Medicare claims.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Rebecca W. Foreman

JD Supra has awarded our Investigations team with its 2021 Readers’ Choice Award as the Top Firm for White Collar analysis. The award comes during a year when the legal intelligence platform quadrupled its content production.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater

On August 11, 2021, Sheng-Wen Cheng was sentenced to 72 months in prison for his alleged participation in multiple schemes related to Covid-19 pandemic loan fraud and securities fraud.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Nadia Patel

On July 26, 2021, a bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021, a bill that would amend the False Claims Act (FCA) in several ways.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington

JD Supra has awarded our Investigations team with its 2021 Readers’ Choice Award as the Top Firm for White Collar analysis. The award comes during a year when the legal intelligence platform quadrupled its content production.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater

According to court documents, the defendant admitted to, among other things, distributing unnecessary compound prescriptions by adjusting prescriptions and paying recruiters commissions for procuring prescriptions for high-margin medications.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Laura Zell

US-based multinational medical device company, Avanos Medical Inc., entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay more than $22 million in connection with a criminal complaint charging the company with one count of introducing misbranded surgical gowns in interstate commerce with t