Pamela Coyle Brecht will be presenting at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 24th Annual Compliance Institute in Nashville, Tennessee on March 30, 2020. The title of Ms. Brecht’s presentation is, “Healthcare Private Equity, Moving Into the Government’s Crosshairs.” Private equity (PE), through mergers and acquisitions, has moved into the healthcare space in a very big… Read more »
A coordinated law enforcement effort among myriad federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey resulted in the arrests of 48 defendants. Included in those arrested were doctors and medical professionals who, allegedly, submitted over $160 million in fraudulent insurance claims, caused losses of over $800 million and distributed over 3.25… Read more »
Join Partner Douglas Rosenblum, on Thursday, November 14th at noon, for an informative webinar discussion of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This federal statute, enacted more than 40 years ago, has become more and more prevalent in federal investigations. It is critical for counsel representing any American company doing business abroad to understand the ramifications of… Read more »
Yesterday, the Third Circuit affirmed a doctor’s conviction for accepting bribes in exchange for referrals to New Jersey based lab Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services (BLS). U.S. v. Thomas V. Savino, No. 18-2223 (3d Cir. 2019). Doctor Thomas Savino allowed BLS to set up a blood drawing station in his solo medical practice in Staten Island, New… Read more »
Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP is pleased to announce that Pamela Coyle Brecht, the Chair of the Firm’s Qui Tam Practice Group, has been selected by the Philadelphia Business Journal as a Recipient of the 2019 Best of the Bar Awards. The awards identify Philadelphia’s top lawyers across nine categories, including white-collar defense… Read more »
In the wake of several massive data breaches, consumer privacy (or lack thereof) has become a growing concern. For some, more surprising than the breaches was learning how much personal information companies collect from consumers—everything from Social Security numbers and email addresses to location data and demographics—and how much personal information is being sold or… Read more »
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), codified in 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, et. seq., prohibits certain classes of persons and entities from paying foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. Specifically, persons and entities may not corruptly use any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of any offer or payment… Read more »
Will the Trump administration’s changes in corruption enforcement policies decrease prosecutions of companies and individuals doing business in Latin America? Not likely. Despite the public perception that the Trump administration is relaxing its antibribery Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement efforts, in the last couple of years we have seen an increase in FCPA… Read more »
Corporations engaged in civil litigation or government investigations often need to address public relations resulting from their legal involvement, commonly referred to as “crisis communications.” Outside and in-house legal counsel and the corporate officers involved have always had to exercise considerable care to avoid potential waiver of attorney-client and attorney work product privileges. In a… Read more »
An attorney is outside counsel to a midsized, closely held corporation. The attorney reports to a group of officers and directors. The client was just served at corporate headquarters with a grand jury subpoena in connection with a yet unknown fraud investigation. Although the client has been reliable and solvent for many years, the president… Read more »