White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

DEFENSE CONTRACTS

– Bribery

– – Construction firm executive pleads guilty to paying Army contracting officer (D. Colo.), 928
– – Retired Army major, sentencing (M.D. Ga.), 15

– FCPA, UK-based firm, bribes to public officials, guilty plea (D.D.C.), 178; possible export license sanctions, 304
– Fraud charges time-barred (S.D. Cal.), 501

DEPARTMENT OF

See specific department e.g., JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (DOJ)

DISCOVERY

– Attorney-client privilege

See ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

– Collaborative cross-agency investigations, DOJ guidance, 193
– DOJ memo re guidelines and local policies, 31
– Electronic discovery in FCPA investigations, BNA Insights, 909
– Grand jury subpoena for documents obtained in civil lawsuit (9th Cir.), 936
– SEC deposition testimony, nondisclosure to fraud defendants did not undermine convictions (E.D.N.Y.), 526
– Text messages sent between FBI agents and cooperating witness deleted (D.N.J.), 839

DOCTORS

See HEALTH CARE
– Medicare fraud

See MEDICARE

DOJ

See JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (DOJ)

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

– Bankruptcy fraud and obstruction of justice convictions (7th Cir.), 141
– Conspiracy, separate punishment for violations of offense and fraud portions of federal statute (3d Cir.), 356
– Enron exec reindictment challenge, jurisdiction (5th Cir.), 328; (U.S., rev den), 767
– Federal conspiracy statute, separate punishments for violating “offense” and “fraud” portions, rehearing (3d Cir.), 78
– Health care benefits program, embezzlement and mail fraud charges (2d Cir.), 733
– Mail fraud, acquittal as bar to retrial on hung counts (D.C. Cir.), 536

DRUGS

– Accounting fraud

– – Bristol-Myers Squibb executives, deferred prosecution agreement (D.N.J.), 497
– – Duane Reade drug store executives convicted (S.D.N.Y.), 428

– Adulterated drugs, GlaxoSmithKline to pay penalties (D. Mass.), 756
– AIDS

See AIDS AND HIV

– Average wholesale price inflation, makers settle charges, 896
– Controlled substances, doctor and wife/nurse convicted of illegal distribution (D. Kan.), 499; sentencing, 759
– Counterfeit drug trafficking

– – Cancer drugs, sentencing (D. Ariz.), 602
– – Evidence that mark was on principal register not introduced (5th Cir.), 185

– Dentist drug trafficking, sentencing (Ky. Cir. Ct.), 38
– Doctor pleads guilty to illegal distribution of prescription drugs (W.D. Mo.), 529; sentencing, 807
– Fake prescriptions written by doctor, indictment (D. Colo.), 651
– False Claims Act and anti-kickback enforcement, BNA webinar, 579
– FCPA prosecutions, international cooperation trend, lawyers discuss, 157
– FDA increased enforcement efforts, conferees discuss, 771
– Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act violations

– – Individual liability, prosecutors focus on, BNA Insights, 862
– – Misdemeanor prosecutions of high-level executives, BNA Insights, 544

– Illegal internet prescription sales, physician sentencing (D.N.J.), 290
– Insider trading on adverse clinical trial data, doctor charged (S.D.N.Y.), 752
– Kadian false claims and kickback payments, settlement, 224
– Kickbacks to doctors for writing prescriptions, Abbott subsidiary to pay fines (M.D. La.), 885
– Marketing for off-label use

– – Botox, Allergan settles charges (N.D. Ga.), 652
– – GlaxoSmithKline officer indicted for obstruction and false statements (D. Md.), 795; not guilty plea, 884; Special Report, 946
– – Increased prosecution of executives, legal group urges FDA to abandon, 773
– – Neurontin, Pfizer jury verdict (D. Mass.), 261
– – Sentencing in Actimmune case, proof of loss (N.D. Cal.), 812
– – Topamax, plea agreement (D. Mass.), 319
– – Trileptal, Novartis criminal and civil settlement, 77
– – Zonegran epilepsy drug, Elan to pay fine (D. Mass.), 886

– Medicaid billing fraud

– – Clinical testing laboratory indicted for drug screening kickback scheme (Mass. Super. Ct.), 494
– – Forged prescriptions scheme, sentencing (N.D. Ga.), 14
– – Pharmacist indicted (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 799

– Medicare billing fraud

– – Injectable cancer drugs not provided to patients, doctor plea agreement (C.D. Cal.), 320
– – Pharmacy scheme, sentencing (S.D. Fla.), 599

– Misbranded drugs sold for nonexistent Lyme disease epidemic, guilty plea (D. Kan.), 698; doctor pleads guilty, 758
– Nurse's theft of patient pain drugs, abuse-of-trust sentence enhancement (1st Cir.), 39
– Pain drugs, fabricating data for research journals, doctor's plea offer (D. Mass.), 70; sentencing, 503
– Search of computer records of major league baseball players' test results, amended opinion issued (9th Cir., en banc), 649
– Unapproved and misbranded drug distribution, maker pleads guilty (D. Mass.), 653
– Web pharmacy law, Controlled Substances Act, vagueness (8th Cir.), 328

DUE PROCESS

– Armed services, guilty pleas, appeals, closely related offense doctrine (C.A.A.F.), 361
– Supervised release, revocation of (8th Cir.), 606