An Early Look At DOJ’s Increased Focus On COVID-19 Fraud

In an earlier article, Winston & Strawn Attorneys Suzanne Jaffe Bloom, Abbe David Lowell, and Lisa Chan offered a broad overview of how the U.S. Department of Justice, other federal and state agencies and the courts are responding to the current coronavirus pandemic. They also discussed the first civil enforcement action that the DOJ filed against COVID-19-related fraud.

In this follow-up Law360 article, they examine what are likely the first criminal actions that the DOJ has brought targeting COVID-19 fraud. Read further about their thoughts on how the government may be reshaping its ongoing fraud investigations to focus on any COVID-19 components of the fraudulent schemes as a way to demonstrate the new law enforcement priority here.

View all of our COVID-19 perspectives here. Contact a member of our COVID-19 Legal Task Force here.