By Sara Kropf Many of the clients we represent in Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigations are facing allegations that they violated federal ethics regulations or internal agency ethics rules. Here’s how it usually plays out. An OIG agent knocks on the...
By Andrea L. Moseley If you applied for pandemic relief funds and your business is in Virginia, you should be aware that civil and criminal fraud investigations and prosecutions are going to intensify in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA). Shown above, this...
By Sara Kropf It’s July 2020. One day we’ll look back at this time with some perspective. We’ll tally with certainty how many people died from a pandemic that could undoubtedly been stopped sooner. We’ll evaluate whether the Black Lives Matters protests led to...
By: Andrea Moseley Your company applied for money under the terms of the CARES Act: Are you at risk of facing scrutiny from DoJ because of your application? To understand the answer to this question, you must be aware of DoJ's fleet-footed approach to snuffing out...
By Sara Kropf In Part 1, we reviewed the various rules in place that require research institutions and individual researchers to disclose financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs)—particularly financial support from foreign sources. The Department of Justice is taking...
By Andrea L. Moseley As expected, fraud relating to the present COVID-19 pandemic is being prosecuted for the first time. These crimes of opportunity were predictable and the Department of Justice has come to the table, loaded for bear. Now, our white collar defense...
By: Sara Kropf We've written before (see here, here and here) about the dangers of committing research misconduct, particularly for research that uses federal funds. Now there's a new danger. The federal government has recently started cracking down on institutions'...
By Andrea L. Moseley The time to raise our hands and cast a vote in the general election is just a few short months away. I am watching eagerly to see how DoJ proceeds with campaign election crime investigations and prosecutions arising from this election cycle. I...
By: Sara Kropf One of the biggest questions on everyone’s mind right now is when a vaccine for COVID-19 will be ready. A related question is whether anyone will develop an effective treatment for it. In the United States, vaccines and new drug treatments are approved...
Blog Post by Andrea L. Moseley This week the Grand Jury Target authors want to make sure you read an article about the law of conspiracy that is hot off the press. You do not want to miss this timely article that lays out valuable defense strategies against the...