Christian Garcia

Firm/Organization: Foley Hoag LLP
Blogs: Massachusetts Labor & Employment Law, White Collar Law & Investigations

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This is a follow-up to our September 13, 2019 post discussing the DOJ guidance on corporate claims of inability to pay. On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, the Department of Justice provided guidance on how its prosecutors should evaluate claims of corporate poverty.  This comes on the heels of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Miner’s comments last month suggesting that further guidance on corporate poverty claims was forthcoming.  The DOJ’s memo sets forth a framework for…
As we reported in previous alerts (April 26, 2019 and May 9, 2019), all employers with 100 or more employees must submit employee pay data for 2017 and 2018 to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on an updated Employer Information Report Form (EEO-1) by September 30, 2019. However, this may end up being a one-time requirement. On September 12, 2019, the EEOC announced that it will not be requiring EEO-1 filers…
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On September 12, 2019, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Miner signaled that the Department of Justice may provide further guidance to prosecutors—and companies—on how to evaluate claims of corporate poverty.  In a speech at the University of Texas School of Law’s 6th Annual Government Enforcement Institute,  Miner stated that the DOJ has been considering the issuance of “concrete guidance or factors to consider” to assist prosecutors in their evaluation of companies who claim that they…
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John Kapoor’s fate continues to rest in the hands of jurors in the District of Massachusetts. On April 5, 2019, both the United States and defense counsel concluded their closing arguments in USA v. Babich et. al., No. 1:16-cr-10343, a case where the Government alleged that Kapoor, the founder and former Chairman of the Board of Insys Therapeutics, was instrumental in Insys’ scheme to bribe doctors to overprescribe Subsys, an under-the-tongue fentanyl-based painkiller approximately 100…
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On January 28, 2019, the Department of Justice announced that a 13-count indictment against Chinese telecommunications conglomerate Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and various affiliated parties was unsealed earlier that day.  Huawei is charged with bank fraud, wire fraud, violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, obstruction of justice, and various related conspiracy charges. All charges in the indictment stem from Huawei’s alleged long-standing ploy to deceive financial institutions and the U.S. Government with respect…
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On January 29, 2019, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in Yee v. Mass. State Police that an employer’s denial of an employee’s request for a lateral transfer that would have no impact on the employee’s base pay or benefits may constitute an adverse employment action under Massachusetts’ anti-discrimination statute, G.L. c. 151B (“Chapter 151B”). The SJC’s decision expands the scope of employment actions that may be actionable under Chapter 151B. The Yee decision arose from a dispute…