The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in a pair of cases out of the Seventh Circuit that will finally resolve a longstanding circuit split on the question of “scienter” under the False Claims Act (FCA) namely, whether a defendant can “knowingly” violate the FCA if the relevant legal requirement is ambiguous and the defendant’s conduct is otherwise “objectively reasonable.” By Jennifer Freel, Laura M. Kidd Cordova, & Bethany Pickett Shah
Luke Cass is a Corporate Defense lawyer at Womble Bond Dickinson Law Firm, specializing in the defense of a variety of federal criminal allegations, including health care fraud, conspiracy, mail and wire fraud.
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday agreed with a man convicted of fraud that a lower court improperly denied his request to be released from prison at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that it had failed to consider his heightened risk of death or serious illness.
One day after her conviction, US Judiciary authorities Friday released details of the modus operandi whereby a former Hugo Chávez aide and her husband collected over US$ 100 million in bribes