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DOJ Enforcement Actions

					
The  is the principal federal agency authorized to enforce the laws and defend the interests of the United States. As such, it oversees the enforcement of the False Claims Act, the foundation of the American whistleblower system, as well as numerous other laws.


The agency traces its origins to the Judiciary Act of 1789 which created the Office of the Attorney General, and the 1870 Act to Establish the Department of Justice, which established the agency as “an executive department of the government of the United States” with the Attorney General as its head.


The agency is comprised of numerous divisions with the Civil Division and in some instances, the Criminal Division, overseeing investigations and prosecutions under the False Claims Act. The  of the federal district where the False Claims Act case is filed also plays a key role in False Claims Act enforcement.


Below are summaries of recent DOJ settlements or successful resolutions under the False Claims Act as well as other successful prosecutions for fraud and misconduct. If you believe you have information about fraud which could give 聽rise to a claim for a whistleblower reward, please contact us to speak with one of our experienced whistleblower attorneys.

				

			

			
						
					
			 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
November 22, 2021

				 South Carolina chiropractor Daniel McCollum has consented to judgment of $9 million to resolve charges that he submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law.听 McCollum admitted that his laboratory, Labsource (which was a party to a related action), gave referring providers an opportunity to earn revenue generated from their commercially-insured referrals for urine drug testing as an inducement for those providers to refer all of their federally-insured urine drug testing patients to Labsource. 聽McCollum also caused medically unnecessary prescriptions for pain creams often without the knowledge or approval of the patients鈥� healthcare providers.听 In addition to the civil settlement, McCollum pleaded guilty to criminal kickback and healthcare fraud charges and will be sentenced at a later date.听 ; 				 					 

						
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													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Laboratory and IDTF, 
													  Lack of Medical Necessity, 
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November 16, 2021

				 Richard Ayvazyan was sentence to 17 years in prison, his wife Marietta Terabelian to six years, and his brother Artur Ayvazyan to five years, following their convictions at trial on charges related to their scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $20 million in Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan COVID-19 relief funds.听 The defendants used dozens of false identities to submit fraudulent applications for approximately 150 PPP and EIDL loans, supporting applications with false and fictitious documents including fake identity documents, tax documents and payroll records. ; 				 					 

						
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													  COVID-19, 
													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  Financial and Investment Fraud, 
													  Government Loan Programs, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
November 15, 2021

				 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans will pay $1.05 million to resolve allegations that it falsely certified damage description and repair estimates in connection with claims for federal funds for the repair of facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.听 Claims against federal contractor AECOM, which prepared the estimates, are continuing.听 The Archdiocese is in bankruptcy, and the settlement amount is based on an 鈥渁bility to pay鈥� determination.听 The action was initiated by the filing of a whistleblower complaint by AECOM employee Robert Romero, who will receive a whistleblower award of approximately $200,000. 聽; 聽 See earlier settlement				 					 

						
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													  Certifications, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Government Programs Fraud, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
													  Whistleblower Rewards, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
November 9, 2021

				 The owner of California-based DC Solar, Jeff Carpoff, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the largest criminal fraud scheme ever prosecuted in the Eastern District of California.听 Together with his wife Paulette and five other co-conspirators, Carpoff lied to investors about market demand for his company鈥檚 mobile solar generator (MSG) units, using false lease contracts and financial statements to back up the lie.听 In addition to selling thousands of MSGs that didn鈥檛 even exist, the defendants paid prior investors using funds from newer investors, then laundered their ill-gotten gains.听 ; Add'l defendant sentencing at 				 					 

						
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													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  Financial and Investment Fraud, 
													  Ponzi Schemes, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
November 9, 2021

				 Numerous anesthesia providers and outpatient surgery centers in Georgia, including Ambulatory Anesthesia of Atlanta, LLC and Northside Anesthesiology Consultants, LLC, have agreed to pay over $28 million to resolve kickback allegations by whistleblowers Kathleen Hartney-Velazco, M.D., Jan Kersey, and Capitol Anesthesiology, P.C., who will receive a $4.7 million cut of the settlement.听 According to the whistleblowers, the anesthesia providers made payments and provided free staffing to the outpatient surgery centers in order to obtain exclusivity contracts over a ten-year period.听 				 					 

						
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													  Anti-Kickback and Stark, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Provider Fraud, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
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November 9, 2021

				 Kal茅o, Inc., a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Virginia, has agreed to pay $12.7 million to resolve a whistleblower鈥檚 allegations that it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act in claims submitted to Medicare, TRICARE, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.听 Between 2017 and 2020, kal茅o allegedly provided kickbacks to physicians and their staff to induce and reward them for prescribing Evzio, a higher-priced version of a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses and which often requires prior authorization.听 Kal茅o also allegedly directed pharmacies to submit false prior authorizations and dispense Evzio without collecting required co-pays.听 				 					 

						
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													  Anti-Kickback and Stark, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Other Government Health Programs, 
													  Pharma Fraud, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
November 8, 2021

				 Florida-based medical device company Arthrex Inc. has agreed to pay $16 million and enter into a five-year corporate integrity agreement to resolve allegations of paying kickbacks to a Colorado-based orthopedic surgeon in exchange for the surgeon鈥檚 use and recommendation of its products.听 According to a qui tam suit by whistleblower Joseph Shea, the kickbacks were disguised as royalty payments for the surgeon鈥檚 contributions to Arthrex鈥檚 SutureBridge and SpeedBridge products.听 For his role in the case, Shea will receive a relator鈥檚 share of $2.5 million.听 				 					 

						
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													  Anti-Kickback and Stark, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Medical Devices and DME, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
													  Whistleblower Rewards, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
November 5, 2021

				 Two men who pleaded guilty to causing $134 million in false claims to be submitted to Medicare and CHAMPVA have been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of over $29 million.听 Michael Nolan of Florida was sentenced to 6.5 years, while Richard Epstein of Colorado was sentenced to about 5 years.听 Using a telemarketing company called REMN Management LLC, as well as a telemedicine company called Comprehensive Telcare LLC, Nolan and Epstein had bribed physicians to sign medically unnecessary orders for durable medical equipment, which they then sold to co-conspirators as support for the false claims.听 				 					 

						
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													  Anti-Kickback and Stark, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Medical Devices and DME, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Other Government Health Programs, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
November 1, 2021

				 Geisinger Community Health Services, based in Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay over $18.5 million to resolve its liability following a self-disclosure of violations of the False Claims Act.听 The violations occurred between 2012 and 2017 and involved physician certifications of terminal illness, patient elections of hospice care, and physician face-to-face encounters with home health patients.听 				 					 

						
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													  Certifications, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Home Health and Hospice, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Provider Fraud, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			


											

						

								

									
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