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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

The Mango Labs dispute underscores a critical challenge in securities enforcement: what happens when a civil SEC settlement intersects with a parallel DOJ criminal investigation? Mango Labs settled with the SEC for nearly $700,000 in late 2024. But after the political winds shifted and a related criminal case involving the Mango Markets exploit changed course, Mango sought relief under Rule

Despite early speculation that regulatory enforcement might soften under the Trump administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has demonstrated a continued—and in some respects, intensified—commitment to insider trading enforcement in 2025. The agency reported a record number of enforcement actions in the first quarter of FY 2025, including several high-profile insider trading cases that signal a clear message: policing

FINRA Fines Public Investing $350K Over Misleading Influencer Promotions By: Sean Teehan, May 29, 2025 Celebrity-backed brokerage firm faces regulatory scrutiny for unsupervised social media campaigns. Public Investing Penalized for Lack of Oversight Public Investing, a social-first online brokerage supported by celebrities like Tony Hawk and Zoe Saldana, has agreed to pay a $350,000 fine to the Financial Industry Regulatory