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DOJ’s Emphasis of Individual Accountability – Where it Stands, and Where it Could be Headed

Posted On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 At 6:45PM
By: Scott A. Coffina

A recent article in Law360 sparked a vigorous conversation among members of Pietragallo's white collar practice group about the current state of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) evolving...

Medicare Fraud Sentence that Applied Vulnerable Victims Enhancement Upheld by Third Circuit

Posted On Friday, April 24, 2020 At 3:13AM
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A laboratory sales representative, who had pleaded guilty to using a sham charity to direct unnecessary genetic testing to laboratories in exchange for kickbacks, has lost his bid in the Third...

SEC Pushes To Cap Whistleblower Rewards

Posted On Monday, November 12, 2018 At 4:48PM
By: Marc S. Raspanti

What Happened? Gerald Hodgkins, former Associate Director for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Enforcement Division, gave an interview with the Corporate Crime Reporter in...

Tailoring RFP For Preferred Contractors Leads To Guilty Verdicts Of A State University’s President And Construction Executives

Posted On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 At 5:40PM
By: Lourdes Sánchez Ridge

What Happened? On July 10, 2018 a federal jury in Manhattan convicted a State University of New York’s Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) former president, and three executives of two...

Former Nurse Gets Stiff Sentence For Medicare Fraud

Posted On Friday, May 18, 2018 At 6:02PM

What Happened? On May 9, 2018, Joan Cicchiello, a 67-year-old former registered nurse, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to 72 months’...

No Downward Variance For Ex-Akin Gump Partner In DOJ Suit-Selling Case

Posted On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 At 1:50PM

What Happened? Jeffrey Wertkin, a former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner who previously had worked at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), received 30 months’ imprisonment for...

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