By Sara Kropf and Margaret Cassidy This is Part 2 of an article that I wrote with my colleague Margaret Cassidy for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers publication, The Champion. Here is a link to Part I. If you would like to read the entire article,...
This is Part 1 of an article that I wrote with my colleague Margaret Cassidy for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers publication, The Champion. In this part, we provide an overview of the mandatory self-reporting obligations in the Federal...
By Andrea L. Moseley On April 4, 2022, the Department of Justice's Anti-Trust Division (the "Division") provided some welcome guidance on its Leniency Program. The Division announced updates to its Leniency Policy and issued a revised set of nearly 50 frequently asked...
Photo by Ricardo Esquivel on Pexels.com By Andrea L. Moseley On Friday January 28, 2022, Gabriel Garcia filed his notice of intent to assert a public authority defense in response to the six count indictment pending against him for conduct relating to January 6, 2021....
compass with needle pointing the word ethics. Conceptual 3d illustration of business integrity and moral By Andrea L. Moseley Institutionalized leniency, in any form, is music to my ears. When it comes to sanctions, hard line rules and policies rarely benefit my...
By Andrea L. Moseley The Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (“SIGPR”), Brian D. Miller, recently put out a plea for crypto companies to lend a hand in SIGPR's efforts to combat Pandemic Relief Fraud. At the end of September, SIGPR Miller and his former...
By Andrea L. Moseley Author and instructor at Harvard University, Carmine Gallo, aptly observed that the art of persuasion has not changed in 2,000 years. Understanding these principles and how to apply them is critical in our practice of defending individuals and...
By Andrea L. Moseley Inspector General Hannibal "Mike" Ware sent a Spring message that we can hear loud and clear. The Small Business Association's (SBA's) tremendous role in the nation's pandemic response was "without precedent" according to the SBA's Semiannual...
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 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...