By Sara Kropf A few weeks ago, a California federal jury acquitted two former executives of the British software company Autonomy of conspiracy and wire fraud charges. It was a remarkable outcome, particularly since Autonomy’s CFO had been convicted of similar charges...
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...
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 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: 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...
By Andrea L. Moseley Small businesses have been struggling for survival throughout the pandemic. As if that was not hard enough, small business executives have had to hang on with both hands to avoid being thrown off the pendulating landscape of pandemic relief loan...
By Andrea Moseley Since late Spring, I have been tracking emerging trends in COVID-19 related fraud. In May, DoJ charged the first individuals in the nation with fraudulently seeking CARES Act SBA Paycheck Protection Loans. As expected, DoJ's well-funded appetite for...
By Andrea L. Moseley Just before I took a blogging detour into the world of lawyer/tennis players, I promised to post a straightforward analysis of the certifications within Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) applications. Now...