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Last March, the Supreme Court limited the federal government’s use of a familiar weapon in the arsenal against white-collar crime, 18 U.S.C. § 1014.  The decision, Thompson v. United States, 604 U.S. 408 (2025), eliminated culpability under the law if an individual provides misleading, but not literally false, information to a bank or financial institution in connection with a loan.

We recently discussed the Wells Process, that procedural crossroads where advocacy and enforcement meet. And as it turns out, what’s old is new—and newly open—again. Under Chair Paul Atkins, the SEC has begun to revisit an idea first floated nearly two decades ago: the “open jacket policy”—a term that, in all my years as both an SEC Trial Attorney and

No subject of an SEC investigation wants to be “Wellsed.” A Wells notice from SEC staff signals that an enforcement action is probably coming, and with it, sleepless nights, tough conversations, and a sense that the agency’s spotlight has found you. Yet, unsettling as it is, the Wells Process also opens a narrow but meaningful window—an opportunity for experienced SEC

Defense sought to admit government’s exhibits to educate jury Prosecution didn’t have much to show in the way of motive Prosecutors offered surprisingly little evidence to support their theory of fraud in their failed attempt to convict former HealthSun Health Plans Inc. coding supervisor Kenia Valle Boza last week, attorneys familiar with the case say. The case accusing the employee

Two years ago, Kenia Valle Boza’s life was upended when prosecutors accused her of conspiring with others to assign falsified codes to medical diagnoses that caused the federal government to pay out millions of dollars for excessive billing. Valle, a certified professional coder for two Miami-Dade healthcare management companies, was the only defendant named in a conspiracy indictment alleging $12