In the News & Around the Blogosphere

Associate Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer Speaks at the 26th National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("Just two weeks ago, we secured the longest prison sentence -15 years- ever imposed in an FCPA case.")

 

Reuters, Rajaratnam ordered to pay $92.8 million in SEC case 

DOJ Press Release, Brooklyn, N.Y., Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 12 Individuals for Participating in Health Care Fraud Schemes Totaling More Than $95 Million

DOJ Press Release, Owner of Miami Company Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Scheme to Defraud the U.S. Export-Import Bank

 Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post, $3 billion settlement expected in GlaxoSmithKline drug-marketing probe (hat tip to Tiffany Joslyn)

DOJ Press Release, Owner of Houston Health Care Company Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison in Connection with $1.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

DOJ Press Release, Miami-Area Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in $25 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

DOJ Press Release, Former “Most Wanted” Health Care Fraud Fugitives Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for $9.1 Million Detroit Medicare Fraud Scheme

PennLive.com (AP),  Ex-owner of Pennsylvania juvenile detention centers gets 18 months in 'kids for cash' scandal

 

Ryan Haggerty, Chicago Tribune, Attorney: Blagojevich to make statement at sentencing

Peter Lattman, Dealbook,NYTimes, Raj Rajaratnam Assigned to Massachusetts Prison  

Jane Crosby, Star Tribune, UnitedHealth hires top white-collar crime fighter

Branden Goyette, ProPublica, Cheat Sheet: What’s Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis

Anthony J. Franze & R. Stanton Jones, Bloomberg, Silencing a Watchdog: Government Seeks to Muzzle Amicus in John Edwards Prosecution

US Attorney's Office District of New Jersey, LUCCHESE ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY MEMBER AND ASSOCIATE AMONG 13 ARRESTED, CHARGED FOR RACKETEERING AND OTHER OFFENSES, INCLUDING ILLEGAL TAKEOVER OF PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY - Attorneys and Accountant Also Charged as Members of Racketeering Enterprise

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