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Fraud
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FRAUDENT BUSINESS MODEL
Many enterprises spend significant amounts of time and resources looking for the next great thing. In some instances the firm is able to create a new approach, a new way…
Southern California Appellate News
Sanctions watch
The MetNews has C.A. Refers Beverly Hills Firm to State Bar for ‘Consideration of Discipline’ for Fraud-- Opinion Says Lawyers Misrepresented That Proposed Order Was ‘Unopposed’ When in Fact Moving Papers Were…
Compliance Building
A Step Up in Fraud From the Nigerian Prince
In this case, the “prince” was a well established financial adviser. Chibuzo Augustine Onyeachonam, Stanley Chidubem Asiegbu, and Chukwuebuka Martin Nweke-Eze created websites using the the names of real US-based…
Regulatory Oversight
AGs Take Action Regarding Claims of Medicaid Fraud
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team, Nick Gouverneur
This month, two attorneys general (AGs) have settled False Claims Act investigations with two separate companies in the health care industry. Both settlements were notable in their own right. On…
SpotDraft Blog
Understanding Signature Forgery and How to Prevent It
By SpotDraft
Learn what signature forgery is, its types, and ways to detect it. Get actionable technical tips to safeguard your business from forgery.
Criminal
Supreme Court perhaps poised to curtail reach of federal fraud statutes yet again
The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in Kousisis v. US, which presented this question to the Justices as articulated in the petitioner's brief: "Whether a scheme to induce a…
Legal Profession Blog
Bank Shot
The Illinois Administrator has filed a complaint alleging misconduct that had led to a criminal conviction described in a press release from the United States Attorney for the Northern District of…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Scrutinizes Definitions To Determine Scope of False Claims Act
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Susan Feibus, Monika Harris
In Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Todd Heath, another case testing the limits of the False Claims Act (FCA), the question presented is whether requests for money…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Supreme Court perhaps poised to curtail reach of federal fraud statutes yet again
The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in Kousisis v. US, which presented this question to the Justices as articulated in the petitioner's brief: "Whether a scheme to induce a…
Regulatory Oversight
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 4 – A Focus on the FCA
By Allison O'Neil, Amy Pritchard Williams, Daniel Waltz
In the fourth episode of our 12 Days of Regulatory Insights podcast series, Dan Waltz is joined by colleague Amy Williams, a partner at Troutman Pepper, and Allison O'Neil, co-chair…