Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Compliance Clarity for Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of Arbor Consulting Group
Great Women in Compliance: LATAM Compliance Update with Alejandra Montenegro Almonte
AI and the False Claims Act
False Claims Act Insights - The Mathematics of Nuclear FCA Verdicts
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Compliance Influencer with Bettina Palazzo
Blowing the Whistle: What Employers Should Know About DEI & the False Claims Act
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: The False Claims Act
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
False Claims Act Insights - How Payment Suspensions Can Impact FCA Litigation
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
False Claims Act Insights - DOJ’s Reliance on FCA to Pursue Covid-Related Fraud
UPIC Audits
Criminal Health Care Fraud Enforcement: Projections for 2025 and Beyond – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - Stranger Than Fiction? An FCA April Fools’ Day Episode
#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Contractors Alert - DEI Restrictions Reinstated by Appeals Court - Employment Law This Week®
Introduction - The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has announced a significant realignment of resources that will fundamentally reshape criminal enforcement of international trade rules. By combining senior prosecutors...more
The Trump administration’s announcement of a panoply of steep tariffs on April 2, 2025, and the associated tariff negotiations that followed, has been met with extensive media coverage and analysis. To emphasize the...more
On July 8, 2025, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in partnership with the United States Postal Service (USPS) and U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG), announced the launch...more
Emphasizing its commitment to enforcing the False Claims Act (FCA) and combating health care fraud, the Trump Administration recently instituted a DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group dedicated to “combating health care...more
In just a few months, the UK’s corporate criminal liability offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF) comes into force. Modelled on the framework of the Failure to Prevent Bribery offence, FTPF imposes strict liability on...more
Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue of “FCA Enforcement & Compliance Digest,” our quarterly newsletter in which we compile essential updates on False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement trends, litigation, agency guidance, and...more
Over the last year, we have paid close attention to the increasingly complicated and evolving landscape companies are facing in light of changing government enforcement priorities, including the Department of Justice’s...more
The first 120 days of the Trump administration have been characterized by dramatic changes in the realm of white-collar enforcement. However, in the midst of a period wrought with uncertainty over what the administration may...more
On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Deputy Attorney General issued a memorandum (the “Memo”) announcing a Civil Rights Fraud Initiative (the “Initiative”) and instructing the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to pursue False Claims...more
On May 12, 2025, the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) released its criminal—and, more specifically, white collar crime enforcement—initiatives under the current administration. This is typical each time new leadership...more
DOJ Announces Updated White-Collar Enforcement Priorities and Revised Policies - Earlier this week, the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) introduced a new white-collar enforcement plan, which sets...more
With the Trump administration’s new tariffs, some companies may be looking for ways to compensate for increased costs of imports. Companies operating in the international supply chain must be aware that any attempts to...more
It has long been the law of the Eleventh Circuit that, under the False Claims Act (FCA) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b), a relator must provide sufficient “indicia of reliability … to support the allegation of an...more
Uncertainty was a prominent theme at last week’s ABA White Collar Crime Institute. The Trump administration has issued a series of directives that seem to shift and narrow the scope of (if not entirely abandon) a host of...more
ArentFox Schiff attorneys William Ziegelmueller and Kaitlin Klamann attended the American Bar Association’s (ABA) 40th White Collar Crime Institute (WCCI) March 5-7, 2025, in Miami, Florida. In the absence of representatives...more
The US government and private plaintiffs use the False Claims Act (FCA) – a federal statute originally enacted in 1863 in response to defense contractor fraud during the American Civil War – to combat various forms of fraud...more
Host Jonathan Porter welcomes Abe Souza, a new member of Husch Blackwell’s White Collar, Internal Investigations, & Compliance team, to the podcast to discuss newly released Department of Justice data regarding qui tam...more
The Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division published its Year in Review last month, which showed an uptick for white collar enforcement in foreign corruption, financial and health care fraud. The...more
In October 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settlements with Raytheon Company, a division of multinational defense contractor RTX, over defective pricing and...more
Over the past two years, the Department of Justice (DOJ or the Department) has actively incentivized companies to voluntarily self-disclose potential civil and criminal violations. For example, in 2023, in the criminal...more
In last year’s edition of EnforceMintz, we predicted that 2024 would bring an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement activity related to COVID-19 pandemic fraud. Those predictions proved correct. The COVID-19 Fraud...more
As Donald J. Trump prepares to begin his second presidential administration on January 20, 2025, many Department of Justice (“DOJ”) priorities and policies are likely to change. One new Biden administration initiative that is...more
Courts continue to reject aggressive Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) allegations. Most recently, on January 6, 2025, Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed a qui tam action...more
Whistleblower programs are the gifts that keep giving to enforcement agencies, driving a record number of cases, sanctions and awards across multiple agencies. In this ninth installment of Season's Readings, we revisit some...more
On December 6, 2024, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Marshall Miller provided an update on the Justice Department’s (DOJ) corporate criminal enforcement efforts during his keynote address at the Practicing Law...more