By Andrea L. Moseley In today's installment, I am breaking out a scaled-down preview of our firm's Pandemic Fraud Tracker for Federal Cases in Virginia. Virginia is divided into the Eastern (EDVA) and Western (WDVA) Districts. This chart includes prosecutions that DoJ...
By Sara Kropf The government has all sorts of advantages in a criminal case: FBI agents flash a badge and witnesses talk willingly; prosecutors freely use grand jury subpoenas to obtain documents; discovery rules do not require them to turn over all information in...
by Andrea L. Moseley DoJ issued a press release, on March 26, 2021, announcing that it had criminally charged 474 individuals for alleged fraudulent efforts to obtain $569 million in pandemic relief funds. "The impact of the department's work to date sends a clear and...
By Sara Kropf On March 31, 2021, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York asked the court to dismiss the indictment of two defendants in a complex accounting fraud case. The letter request said “we do not believe we can establish beyond a...
By Sara Kropf Hindsight is 20/20. In retrospect, we can often see what our OIG investigation clients could have done to prevent the investigation. The three ideas below won’t prevent every investigation, but they can help mitigate the most serious consequences to your...
by Andrea L. Moseley As National Public Radio co-host and producer Jesse Thorn put it recently, we are a year into this novel coronavirus and the novelty has worn off. We have passed the one year mark for when most Americans realized that COVID-19 was about to turn...
By Sara Kropf A year ago, I wrote a post lamenting the fact that prosecutors get every benefit of the doubt when it comes to whether they committed intentional Brady violations. My point was that judges routinely credit weak evidence of a defendant’s state of mind in...
By Andrea L. Moseley As I have explained in previous blogs, there is a complex oversight structure created by the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) to address fraud related to pandemic relief funds. Multiple offices within the executive...
By Sara Kropf As the historic second impeachment trial of Donald Trump continues, there has been a lot of chatter about what defenses his lawyers would offer. His first set of lawyers withdrew from the case a few days before the Senate trial began. They withdrew amid...
By: Andrea L. Moseley As you might see from the above, not-so-subtle, "light at the end of the tunnel" graphic metaphor, my answer to the headline question is a buoyant "yes." I continue to track the evolution of the Department of Justice's (DoJ's) pursuit of...