In a rare exercise of federal emergency authority, on July 14, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) did two things that, individually, would each be unusual and together are noteworthy: it stayed an emergency rule self-filed by a regulated
On June 4, 2026, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision affirming the dismissal of a False Claims Act (FCA) suit for failure to meet Rule 9(b)’s pleading requirements—i.e., failing to state with “particularity
On June 24, 2026, Acting Attorney General of the United States Todd Blanche along with other senior government officials and leaders announced “the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating healthcare fraud in history.” The 2026 National Health Care
We just released Episode 44 of the False Claims Act Insights podcast where Bryan Nowicki and I talk about this year’s much publicized string of egregious hospice fraud.
Bryan and I talk about how criminal fraud impacts the hospice industry
On June 30, 2026, I spoke with Jeff Le Riche and Sarah Razaq Sallis during the latest edition of Husch Blackwell’s Government Enforcement, Compliance & Investigations webinar series.
Earlier this month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) eliminated its rule barring settlement with defendants who continued to deny the allegations against them. The move follows the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rescission of a parallel no-deny policy
We just released Episode 43 of the False Claims Act Insights podcast where Sean Weiss of DoctorsManagement, LLC and I discuss the biggest topics in healthcare enforcement today. Sean predicts that technology is going to cause False Claims Act enforcement
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 9-0 decision in Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission, holding that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can retrieve ill-gotten gains from alleged securities-law violators without having to prove that
On June 10, 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking public comment on amendments to CFTC Regulation 40.11 and the addition of a new Appendix F to part 40, addressing event
On May 27, 2026, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that its Civil Division is implementing reforms to accelerate the review of False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower complaints alleging fraud on federally funded, state-administered benefits programs. That same day, Assistant
