Blog Posts in May, 2015

Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, Texas, has agreed to a $21.75 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice for allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”) by engaging in ...

Parallel proceedings — where civil and criminal investigations run concurrently — have become more prevalent in recent years. In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder issued a memorandum mandating ...

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts indicted two pharmacy company executives on 25 RICO predicate acts of second-degree murder and charged a total of 14 ...

U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell was the keynote speaker at the recent ACAMS Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Conference in Hollywood, Florida. Caldwell, ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has proposed a new rule that would require publicly held companies to report on the relationship between executive pay and company financial performance. ...

On May 11, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against a retirement planning firm and its principals for ...