Tag:False Claims Act

DOJ Encouraging Companies to Disclose Export Violations

In recent years, the Department of Justice has written policies that encourage companies to come forward with statutory violations, from overseas bribery to antitrust....

DBA Elects New President

Kevin McReynolds will serve as president of the Denver Bar Association for 2019–2020. McReynolds is an assistant attorney general in the criminal appeals section...

Court of Appeals Dismisses Libel Case Against Activist

The Colorado Court of Appeals published an opinion July 25 that is expected to end a long-running feud between an oil company and an...

DOJ Softens Cooperation Credit Standard

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a candid admission last month: The Department of Justice couldn’t carry out its Yates Memorandum exactly as written. Rosenstein...

Perkins Coie Adds to White Collar Team

Perkins Coie expanded its white collar and investigations practice team with the addition of two attorneys making the move from inside counsel back to...

Department of Justice to Expand Self-Disclosure Program

The U.S. Department of Justice favors its cooperation program for foreign bribery cases enough that it wants to apply it to other white-collar criminal...

DOJ to Tamp Down Qui Tams

The U.S. Department of Justice has been reluctant to dismiss weak cases that whistleblowers bring under the False Claims Act. But a leaked DOJ...

Justice Department Touts $3.7B in FCA Recoveries in 2017

The Department of Justice continued its trend of success in enforcing the False Claims Act, at least in how much money it recovered from...