Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter,...more
7/31/2025
/ Cybersecurity ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Genetic Testing ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare ,
New Legislation ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State and Local Government ,
State Attorneys General ,
Telemedicine ,
Whistleblowers
President Trump has called himself the “Tariff Man” and has said that “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented.”[1] It therefore should come as no surprise that, in the first month since taking office, he has announced...more
2/11/2025
/ Canada ,
China ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Foreign Policy ,
Imports ,
International Trade ,
Mexico ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued a final rule bringing the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) into alignment with changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that reorganized Part 23...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more
4/12/2024
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare ,
Nursing Homes ,
Popular
On February 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its False Claims Act (FCA) statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2023. Using DOJ’s FY 2023 Data Table and our analysis from previous years, MoFo’s FCA team...more
2/27/2024
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare Advantage ,
SBA ,
Whistleblowers ,
White Collar Crimes
On February 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its fiscal year (FY) 2022 False Claims Act (FCA) statistics. Utilizing DOJ’s FY 2022 Data Table and comparing back to our FY 2021 coverage, MoFo’s FCA team...more
2/15/2023
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Health Care Providers ,
Kickbacks ,
Medical Devices ,
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Purdue Pharma ,
Qui Tam ,
Subcontractors ,
Whistleblowers
Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more
1/6/2023
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Billing ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Financial Institutions ,
GAO ,
Medicaid ,
NIST ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Retaliation ,
SCOTUS ,
Whistleblowers
Aerojet Rocketdyne received another blow last week in its long running battle to end a 2015 False Claims Act suit alleging it lied about its compliance with cybersecurity requirements in order to win several federal...more
On December 7, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia ordered a nationwide injunction of Executive Order 14042 (the EO or EO 14042), temporarily suspending the EO’s vaccination, masking, and social...more
12/9/2021
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Joe Biden ,
OSHA ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Subcontractors ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing
Both houses of Congress now have voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021. Although the threat of a presidential veto still hangs over the NDAA, we highlight below a few of the...more
12/15/2020
/ Bid Protests ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Veterans Affairs ,
DFARS ,
Federal Contractors ,
Financing ,
NDAA ,
Progress Payments ,
SBA ,
Small Business ,
Software ,
Subcontractors
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) will institute a new Defective Pricing Pilot Team, according to a September 30, 2020, memo issued by Kim Herrington, Acting Principal Director of Defense Pricing and Contracting...more
BID PROTESTS, LATEST DEVELOPMENTS & TWISTS -
Bid Protests: Agenda -
1. LOGCAP V and Task/Delivery Order Protest Jurisdiction
2. SpaceX and Other Transaction Authority Protest Jurisdiction
3. Potential Impact of New...more