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By Justin Okun on May 26, 2018
Posted in Civil Enforcement, Criminal Enforcement, Department of Justice, False Claims Act, Government Investigations
  • A new dawn for data privacy as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect yesterday — of course no one’s really ready for it, including the regulators
  • This former Tennessee judge would make other criminals blush — sexual favors for favorable judicial treatment, paying off a witness, planting drugs in another witness’s car, and embezzling cash from the court’s drug treatment program
  • Watch your mailboxes — these guys allegedly stole mail with personally identifiable info and then opened credit cards in the victims’ names
  • Black Market Peso Exchange (BMPE) scheme in Oregon — the CEO of a company called Beauty Plus Global allegedly accepted deposits of laundered money from drug traffickers (an in-depth explanation of the BMPE can be found here on page 29)
  • Lastly, Pfizer agreed to pay $24 million to resolve charges that it used an independent charity to pay illegal kickbacks to Medicare patients

Tags: Beauty Plus Global, Black Market Peso Exchange, Cason “Casey” Moreland, City Color, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Melissa Godsey, Pfizer, Wen Bing Shieh
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Justin Okun is a senior corporate counsel with T-Mobile, where he handles regulatory and operational compliance. Justin was formerly a shareholder in Lane Powell’s Investigations, White Collar and Compliance practice group. Before joining Lane Powell, Justin spent over a decade in government service…

Justin Okun is a senior corporate counsel with T-Mobile, where he handles regulatory and operational compliance. Justin was formerly a shareholder in Lane Powell’s Investigations, White Collar and Compliance practice group. Before joining Lane Powell, Justin spent over a decade in government service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, a DOJ trial attorney in Washington, DC, a supervisory attorney with the Department of the Navy, and a judge advocate in the Marine Corps, where he began his career. While Justin no longer exercises like a Marine, he still drinks beer like one, especially when he’s blogging.

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