Represented a client charged with health care fraud in connection with a family member's scheme. The firm helped the client cooperate, reduced restitution, and obtained a sentence below the Guidelines that avoided incarceration. The firm later obtained early termination of probation after the client served roughly 40% of the term.
Recovery
United States (Federal)
Healthcare
Representative Matter
Nurse-witness in a $192M Medicare fraud prosecution, not charged
Represented a nurse employed by a nurse practitioner who was under federal indictment for a $192 million health care fraud conspiracy. The nurse practitioner was convicted and sentenced to 20 years. Persuaded the DOJ not to charge our client, who cooperated and testified at trial and has since resumed her career.
No Charges
United States (Federal)
Healthcare
Representative Matter
Parallel SEC and FINRA investigation of an investment adviser
Represents a registered investment adviser and its principal in a parallel SEC and FINRA investigation arising from a customer complaint involving alleged overbilling and improper gifts (approximately $5 million).
United States (Federal)
Healthcare
Financial Services
Representative Matter
Probationary sentence in a pharmaceutical-misbranding case
Represented a client charged with misbranding pharmaceutical compounds purchased from China. The government sought 18 months' imprisonment. The court sentenced the client to probation.
