By Sara Kropf Hindsight is 20/20. In retrospect, we can often see what our OIG investigation clients could have done to prevent the investigation. The three ideas below won’t prevent every investigation, but they can help mitigate the most serious consequences to your career or to your company. It’s worth pointing out that each of these tips could backfire pretty spectacularly if you are planning to do something that is outright illegal. Each requires advance…

by Andrea L. Moseley As National Public Radio co-host and producer Jesse Thorn put it recently, we are a year into this novel coronavirus and the novelty has worn off. We have passed the one year mark for when most Americans realized that COVID-19 was about to turn our personal and work lives upside down. The chaos of this new reality resulted in a host of pandemic related reverberations inside government agencies including DoJ. I…

By Sara Kropf A year ago, I wrote a post lamenting the fact that prosecutors get every benefit of the doubt when it comes to whether they committed intentional Brady violations. My point was that judges routinely credit weak evidence of a defendant’s state of mind in a criminal case, but they reject strong evidence of a prosecutor’s state of mind in a Brady matter. A recent SDNY case shows that this pattern is alive…

By Andrea L. Moseley As I have explained in previous blogs, there is a complex oversight structure created by the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) to address fraud related to pandemic relief funds. Multiple offices within the executive branch are tasked with investigating and potentially prosecuting these cases. These familiar Offices of Inspector General (OIG) such as, the Small Business Administration, the Treasury Department and the Department of Justice (DoJ)…