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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons have signed an Antitrust Cooperation Framework with competition agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 11:42 am by Ben Vernia
On November 8, the Department of Justice announced that it had filed suit against UBS, alleging that the banking giant violated the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), in its sale of residential mortgage-backed securities. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 8:29 am by Ben Vernia
On March 21, the Department of Justice announced that two Florida resort hotels had agreed to pay $325,000 to settle False Claims Act charges, originally brought by a whistleblower, that the companies had submitted fraudulent claims for loans under the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 5:25 pm by Ben Vernia
On June 29, the Department of Justice announced that Florida-based HX5 LLC and its owner have agreed to pay $7,759,693.92 to settle a whistleblower’s allegations that the company fraudulently obtained contracts set aside for socially disadvantaged businesses. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a series of criminal charges against short-term lending companies, accusing the unrelated firms of violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, a federal law passed with the intention of combating organized crime. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 10:25 am by Ben Vernia
On October 25, the Department of Justice announced that it had settled allegations of kickbacks with a Kansas-based home health care agency and its owner. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 7:01 am by David M. Boertje
A month after the national news broke that 5,300 Wells Fargo employees were fired for opening two million phony accounts, the California Department of Justice just announced it is investigating the bank on allegations of criminal identity theft over the creation of these accounts. [read post]
21 Jun 2023, 2:27 pm by Ben Vernia
On June 21, the Department of Justice announced that a skilled nursing facility based in Riverside, California, has agreed to pay $3.825 million to settle False Claims Act charges, originally brought by a whistleblower, that the facility paid kickbacks to physicians to refer patients. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 6:32 pm by Ben Vernia
On June 16, the Department of Justice announced that Maryland-based VitalAxis, Inc., had agreed to pay over $300,000 to resolve civil charges that the company ran (and billed the government for) unnecessary respiratory analyses along with COVID-19 tests. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 6:28 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Block: “A new report from the Department of Justice proposes more international cooperation among law enforcement agencies on the crypto and blockchain front. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 10:37 am by Autumn Callan
The order, which was signed by Trump days after his inauguration in early 2017, allowed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to withhold safety grant funding from “sanctuary cities” where the local government authorities do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement to detain people solely based on their immigration status. [read post]
The US Department of Justice filed an appeal on Friday with the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit challenging a lower court ruling in July blocking new applications to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. [read post]
The US Department of Justice Monday charged 55-year-old Venezuelan cardiologist Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez with attempted computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit computer intrusions. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 5:07 pm by Ben Vernia
On February 1, the Department of Justice announced that three Northern California companies had agreed to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to the government in connection with the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 4:13 am by Ben Vernia
On January 9, the Department of Justice announced that four companies had agreed to settle a whistleblower firm’s allegations that they defrauded the government in the Paycheck Protection Program. [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 6:39 am by Ben Vernia
On March 13, the Department of Justice announced that two Michigan education non-profits had agreed to pay over a quarter million dollars to settle a whistleblower’s allegations that they had submitted false claims to the PPP COVID-19 pandemic relief program. [read post]
30 Dec 2023, 5:35 pm by Ben Vernia
On December 18, the Department of Justice announced that a company and its subsidiary have agreed to pay nearly $15 million to settle a whistleblower’s allegations that the companies had billed Medicare for higher cost services than ordered by physicians. [read post]
26 Nov 2021, 6:00 pm by Ben Vernia
On November 23, the Department of Justice announced that various Crossroad Hospice entities have agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle civil claims, originally brought by whistleblowers, that the Ohio and Tennessee hospices submitted fraudulent claims to federal healthcare programs. [read post]