White House Memorandum Provides Regulated Industries with Greater Due Process
On August 31, 2020, the White House quietly released a memorandum that could significantly change the way civil and administrative enforcement actions proceed. The memorandum can be found here. The memorandum is directed to Deputy Secretaries of Executive Departments...Prosecutors behaving badly … again
On September 16, 2020, a Manhattan federal judge – Judge Alison J. Nathan – issued a scathing order critiquing prosecutors of misleading the court about the disclosure of potentially exculpatory evidence. The court further ordered two Southern District of New York...HIPAA conviction sticks against gynecologist
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Dr. Rita Luthra, a gynecologist in Springfiled, Massachusetts, for violating the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and for obstruction of a criminal health care...PPP Loans: Audits and Subpoenas
The Department of Justice has already started investigating and even filed charges against individuals who acquired Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan funds under false pretenses. In most of the cases charged so far, the individuals all claimed to have...ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I represent doctors, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, pharmacies, and other health care providers, during government investigations and defend them in qui tam (whistle-blower) actions. I also regularly counsel companies from a variety of industries on the adoption and operation of their compliance programs and related due diligence issues.
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