Compliance News
By US Department of Justice, News on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
A Florida man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit health care fraud in an $8.3 million scheme where pharmacy owners paid kickbacks and bribes to telemarketers and telemedicine providers to secure orders for medically unnecessary prescriptions that were billed to Medicare.
By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
Time with the board tends to be short, valuable and critical to the success of the compliance program. Getting and keeping their attention is essential. To do so effectively, Jason Meyer (LinkedIn), President of LeadGood Education recommends keeping in mind that board members share one thing in common with the rest of us: they want to know if what you're telling them is truly relevant to them or a waste of their time.
By SEC Press Releases on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges requiring Oracle Corporation to pay more than $23 million to resolve charges that it violated provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when subsidiaries in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and India created and used slush funds to bribe foreign officials in return for business between 2016 and 2019.
By HHS News releases on Monday, September 26, 2022.
HHS has made additional data publicly available that provide more information about the ownership of all Medicare-certified nursing homes.
By US Department of Justice, News on Monday, September 26, 2022.
Pharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. (Biogen), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve allegations that it caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe Biogen drugs.
By US Department of Justice, News on Monday, September 26, 2022.
A federal jury convicted a former CEO of a health clinic for defrauding the Louisiana Medicaid Program over several years.
By SEC Press Releases on Friday, September 23, 2022.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Compass Minerals International Inc. for misleading investors about a technology upgrade that the company claimed would reduce costs at its most significant mine, but in reality, had increased costs, and for failing to properly assess whether to disclose the financial risks created by the company's excessive discharge of mercury in Brazil.
By SEC Press Releases on Thursday, September 22, 2022.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged The Boeing Company and its former CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg, with making materially misleading public statements following crashes of Boeing airplanes in 2018 and 2019.
By US Department of Justice, News on Thursday, September 22, 2022.
A former Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS) official pleaded guilty today for conspiring to defraud the State of Mississippi of millions of dollars in federal funds.
By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Thursday, September 22, 2022.
Improving data security at your organization doesn't just protect you, it can also increase your business, explain Meiran Galis, Chief Executive Officer of Scytale. Customers increasingly want to know that their business partners' systems are secure and that critical data will not get stolen or held hostage in a ransomware attack.
By US Department of Justice, News on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.
A federal jury convicted a Pennsylvania man and woman today for a scheme to pay and receive kickbacks in exchange for the referral of prescription medications.
By US Department of Justice, News on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.
The Department of Justice today announced that it entered into another four settlements to resolve claims that companies discriminated against non-U.S. citizens by posting job opportunities with unlawful citizenship status restrictions on college job recruiting platforms.
By SEC Press Releases on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the CEO of Cheetah Mobile Inc. and the company's former President with insider trading for selling Cheetah Mobile's securities, pursuant to a purported 10b5-1 trading plan, while in possession of material nonpublic information.
