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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  rise to a claim for a whistleblower reward, please contact us to speak with one of our experienced whistleblower attorneys.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
June 11, 2019

				 A Maryland-based medical device manufacturer facing criminal charges and civil charges under the False Claims Act has agreed to pay $15 million to settle all claims.  According to former employee and whistleblower John Murtaugh, when the company discovered that its MicroMatrix wound dressing powder was contaminated with high levels of endotoxins, it allegedly removed certain MicroMatrix products off the market, but failed to report the removal to the FDA and disclose the reason to doctors, hospitals, and its own sales representatives.  ACell also allegedly caused false claims to be submitted to federal healthcare programs by directing its sales representatives to market the product as safe and effective, providing coding recommendations designed to elicit higher payments from Medicare, and providing improper inducements to encourage use of its product.  As part of the settlement, Murtaugh will receive $2.3 million, and ACell will enter into a 5-year corporate integrity agreement.  				 					 

						
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													  Anti-Kickback and Stark, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Medical Devices and DME, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
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June 7, 2019

				 A New York cold-caller and executive at My Street Research has been sentenced to 2 years in prison and ordered to pay $86,168 for his role in a stock fraud scheme that cost investors $147 million over three years.  Along with 15 co-defendants, Emin Cohen lured elderly and vulnerable investors to a “pump and dump” scheme where the accused artificially inflated the prices and volumes of publicly traded companies that they controlled.  When the stock eventually plummeted, investors lost millions of dollars.  Ten of the co-defendants have since pleaded guilty and await sentencing, while the other five are scheduled to go on trial.  				 					 

						
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June 7, 2019

				 Robert A. Glazer and Marina Menino have been found guilty at trial for their actions directing a Medicare fraud scheme that billed $33 million to the government.  Menino received kickbacks from Glazer in exchange for recruiting patients for his Glazer Clinic.  Glazer then billed Medicare for services the patients did not need or did not receive, referred them to medically unnecessary home health or hospice services, and ordered durable medical equipment that they did not need or receive. Defendants will be sentenced in September 2019. ; 				 					 

						
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													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Provider Fraud, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
June 6, 2019

				 Joseph Bailey, the CEO of NYC-based children's clothing companies Stargate Apparel, Inc. and Rivstar Apparel, Inc., has been arrested, and the government has filed a civil complaint in intervention against all three, arising from their alleged actions in falsifying records regarding the value of goods imported to the U.S. in order to evade customs duty payment obligations.  Defendants allegedly engaged in double-invoicing schemes whereby a Chinese manufacturer would provide both a "pay by" invoice with the actual price, and a second, lower invoice, to be presented to Customs and Border Protection, or a "commercial invoice" and a second "sample invoice" in a larger amount, because sample goods are not subject to customs duties.  The schemes were first brought to the attention of federal law enforcement by a whistleblower who filed a lawsuit under the False Claims Act. 				 					 

						
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													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  Customs Fraud, 
													  FCA Federal, 
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June 5, 2019

				 Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics will pay $225 million to resolve federal criminal and civil claims against it regarding the unlawful marketing of its drug Subsys, including the payment of kickbacks to providers through sham "speaker programs" that rewarded practitioners who increased their Subsys prescribing, as well as jobs for prescribers' relatives and friends, and lavish meals and entertainment.  $195 million of the settlement will be paid to resolve False Claim Act allegations in five separate whistleblower lawsuits in which the government intervened in 2018; the whistleblower reward shares have not yet been determined.  To resolve the criminal claims, Insys will pay $2 million and forfeit $28 million; its operating subsidiary will plead guilty to wire fraud and related charges.  In addition, Insys entered into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement and a five-year deferred prosecution agreement. Previously, five former Insys executives were convicted of racketeering in connection with Subsys marketing.  ; 				 					 

						
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													  Anti-Kickback and Stark, 
													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Off-Label and Unapproved Use, 
													  Pharma Fraud, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
													  Whistleblower Rewards, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
June 3, 2019

				 Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. and its parent company Carnival Cruise Lines & plc will pay a $20 million criminal penalty for violating its probation resulting from a 2017 criminal proceeding in which the companies paid a $40 million penalty.  The companies were subject to ongoing compliance monitoring as a result of the earlier proceeding, and that monitoring detected numerous ongoing violations.  Defendants admitted to failing to implement an effective compliance program, seeking to evade their compliance obligations, falsifying records, and illegally discharging waste.  				 					 

						
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													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  Environmental Fraud, 
													  Ocean Dumping, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
June 3, 2019

				 Rialto Capital Management LLC (Rialto) and its former affiliate, RL BB-IN KRE LLC (RL BB), have agreed to pay $3.6 million to resolve allegations that a RL BB hospital violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and the False Claims Act.  A qui tam lawsuit filed by Dr. Abdul Buridi had revealed that Indiana-based Kentuckiana Medical Center, under Rialto’s direction, had provided personal loans to two referring doctors and then failed to collect on those loans after they became due in full.  Of the $3.6 million recovered, Dr. Buridi will receive $612,000.  				 					 

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

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
June 3, 2019

				 A former physician’s assistant in New Hampshire has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for writing prescriptions of a fentanyl spray in exchange for over $49,000 in kickbacks masked as speaker honorariums.  After being approached by a drug manufacturer in 2013, Christopher Clough wrote upwards of 750 prescriptions for the spray, which was intended for management of breakthrough cancer pain (BTCP).  Over 215 of those prescriptions were for Medicare and TRICARE patients and led to payments of over $2.1 million by Medicare and almost $600,000 by TRICARE.  On top of the kickback charges, Clough was accused of causing patient harm for prescribing the drug, in high doses, to patients who didn’t have BTCP, and then rebuffing patient and family requests to get off the drug.  				 					 

						
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													  Anti-Kickback and Stark, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Other Government Health Programs, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
May 31, 2019

				 A Kansas hospital accused of submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a qui tam suit by Bashar Awad and Cynthia McKerrigan, with about $50,000 of the recovery going to the whistleblowers.  According to the suit, from 2012 to 2013, Coffey Health System falsely attested to having conducted or reviewed security risk analyses of electronic health records (EHR), which was a requirement under a federal incentive program that pays healthcare providers for adopting certified EHR technology.  				 					 

						
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													  Certifications, 
													  Electronic Health Records, 
													  FCA Federal, 
													  Hospital Fraud, 
													  Medicaid, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
													  Whistleblower Rewards, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			




	
		
		

			

				
				
May 31, 2019

				 Oklahoma Heart Hospital, LLC and Oklahoma Heart Hospital South, LLC (collectively “OHH”), have agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve a qui tam suit by a former employee, which alleged that OHH violated the federal and state False Claims Acts and defrauded Medicaid by submitting claims for outpatient procedures as if they were inpatient procedures.  Though multiple allegations were raised in the lawsuit, only the allegation involving the upcoded claims was intervened by the government; the other allegations will be dismissed as part of the settlement.  				 					 

						
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													  FCA Federal, 
													  FCA State, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Hospital Fraud, 
													  Medicaid, 
													  Upcoding, 
													  Whistleblower Case, 
												
						

					
	
							
	
		
		
	


 			


											

						

								

									
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