DOJ Announces Another Wide-Ranging COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Action

Last week, the Department of Justice announced a significant takedown that it described as “build[ing] on the success of the May 2021 COVID-19 Enforcement Action.” As part of this enforcement effort, criminal charges were announced against 21 defendants across the country for their alleged involvement in various COVID-19 related fraud schemes that resulted in over $149 million in “COVID-19 related false billings to federal programs and theft from federally-funded pandemic assistance programs.” Generally speaking, the alleged schemes at issue in this takedown were very similar to the enforcement actions that we reported on in our 2021 Year in Review.