Women Criminal Defense Attorneys: Current Happenings in Criminal Defense

Lately there seems to be a lot to talk about. For one, Loretta Lynch has hit the ground running since taking over the top spot as United States Attorney General. In late May, the Department of Justice announced the Indictment of a total of fourteen defendants which included FIFA officials and corporate executives associated with bribes. The New York Times summarized how the defendants fit into the long history of bribes associated with the World Cup. The investigation into FIFA continues as defendants have entered pleas and began cooperating with the Government. In fact it has expanded into an investigation into the involvement of Swiss banks in money laundering transactions related to the probe. All in all, the FIFA bribery case has and will continue to keep the criminal defense bar busy for a long time.

Then, just last week the Department of Justice announced the arrest of 243 people for health care fraud offenses throughout the United States. It is being called the largest crackdown on health care fraud in the history of the department. It was announced that the fraud charged resulted in $712 Million in fraudulent billing to the Medicare system. And as we can expect in any large federal indictment, when people start pleading there will be more to follow.

Clearly there is a lot of criminal defense work to go around and I hope that we will all remember to support other women in the field whenever we can. Stay tuned!