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Issue Request for Public Input as Part of Inquiry into Impacts of Corporate Ownership Trend in Healthcare

Jason Free — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:29:16 +0000

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly launched a cross-government public inquiry into private-equity and other corporations’ increasing control over health care.

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Justice Department Announces Results of Nationwide COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Action

Jason Free — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 01:15:46 +0000

The Justice Department announced the results of a coordinated, nationwide enforcement action to combat COVID-19 fraud, which included 718 enforcement actions – including federal criminal charges against 371 defendants – for offenses related to over $836 million in alleged COVID-19 fraud.

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Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of Snake Malware Network Controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service

Jason Free — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:01:56 +0000

The Justice Department announced the completion of a court-authorized operation, code-named MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake”, that the U.S. Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).

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Justice Department Seizes and Forfeits Approximately $500,000 from North Korean Ransomware Actors and their Conspirators Against Medical Centers

Jason Free — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:49:53 +0000

The Justice Department announced a complaint filed in the District of Kansas to forfeit cryptocurrency paid as ransom to North Korean hackers or otherwise used to launder such ransom payments. In May 2022, the FBI filed a sealed seizure warrant for the funds worth approximately half a million dollars. The seized funds include ransoms paid by health care providers in Kansas and Colorado.

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