2014 Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Conference Faculty Bios

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1 2014 Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Conference Faculty Bios Marcella Auerbach is a Partner at Nolan Auerbach & White. Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund named Ms. Auerbach and one of her partners, Kenneth J. Nolan, as Lawyers of the Year for She is a former federal prosecutor who spent more than twenty-five years at the United States Department of Justice, serving in a wide variety of leadership roles. As First Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Ms. Auerbach managed, directed, and supervised 210 attorneys in the criminal and civil divisions, worked directly with every federal agency, and was involved in all stages of criminal and civil prosecutions and forfeitures. She spent eight years in the Civil Division, where she represented the federal government in health care fraud qui tam cases in the Southern District of Florida. Ms. Auerbach also supervised and spearheaded a large number of prosecutions as Chief of Narcotics, Special Counsel to the United States Attorney, and a Special Attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the United States Department of Justice. She received numerous awards during her tenure at the United States Department of Justice, including the John Marshall Award for outstanding litigation work, the Law Enforcement Woman of the Year Award, and numerous special commendations from Attorneys General of the United States. Ms. Auerbach has led numerous panel discussions and training conferences for attorneys, federal and state prosecutors, and federal agents on topics such as health care fraud, investigative techniques, and federal court and trial advocacy. She has lectured at the Department of Justice Advocacy Institute and has appeared on panels at the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Conference and the Southern Health Care Fraud Institute. In May 2012, she appeared as a panelist at the 22 nd Annual CLE National Institute on Health Care Fraud in Las Vegas, NV and in June 2012, she appeared as a panelist at the Ninth National Institute on the Civil False Claims Act and Qui Tam Enforcement in Washington, DC. Ms. Auerbach s qui tam client case recoveries within the past several years include: Johnson & Johnson ($2.2 billion multi-case combined civil and criminal settlement); Allergan, Inc. ($600 million civil and criminal overall); Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation ($422 million multicase civil and criminal overall); Forest Laboratories, Inc. and its subsidiary Forest Pharmaceuticals ($300 million multi-case civil and criminal overall); Universal Health Services ($27.5 million); Odyssey Health, Inc. ($25 million); KV Pharmaceutical Company ($17 million); St. Jude Medical ($16 million overall); Dava Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ($11 million ); Mallinckrodt LLC ($3.5 million). Ms. Auerbach has worked pro bono on many domestic violence and abuse cases, including the Put Something Back and Lawyers Care programs. She also has worked on the Florida Bar Hurricane Disaster Project on a pro bono basis. Ms. Auerbach earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami, a Juris Doctor degree from Samford Law School, and a Master of Laws degree from New York University.

2 Michael I. Behn, of Behn & Wyetzner, Chartered in Chicago, was honored as the first relators Lawyer of the Year by Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund. His many successes include representing a relator pharmacist in recovering over $120 million in multi-state Medicaid fraud settlements of drug switching allegations against Walgreens, CVS, and Omnicare. He also represented the pharmacist in cases alleging that Johnson & Johnson paid kickbacks to influence drug selections in Omnicare s nursing homes, which recovered over $170 million. In another major case, he represented the relators in a 16-year battle involving the B-2 Stealth bomber and other military programs, which resulted in Northrop Grumman paying $134 million. Before entering private practice, Mr. Behn served as a fraud prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Southern District of New York, as a trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and as a Judicial Clerk in the U.S. District Court for Vermont. Jamie M. Bennett joined Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP on April 1, 2011, after over twenty years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney s Office for the District of Maryland. Ms. Bennett spent the last decade of her government service investigating civil and criminal fraud claims on behalf of the United States under the False Claims Act. Her successful investigations include a 2009 Anti-Kickback settlement with Alpharma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a 2010 settlement with St. Joseph Medical Center, resolving claims that SJMC paid kickbacks to a prominent cardiology group in return for the referral of cardiac patients to the hospital. That settlement also resolved claims that, while employed by SJMC, Dr. Mark Midei placed medically unnecessary stents in dozens of patients there. Before she became a member of the USAO s civil frauds enforcement unit, Ms. Bennett was assigned to the Narcotics Division, where she prosecuted drug and drug-related murder cases, including the first federal death penalty case in Maryland. Ms. Bennett is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Rochester. In 2010, she received the United States Attorney s top award for excellence in the prosecution of fraud for her work in the Alpharma and St. Joseph Medical Center investigations, among others. At Aschraft & Gerel, she represents whistleblowers in a wide variety of matters, ranging from health care to defense contracting fraud. Julie Keeton Bracker received her J.D. summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2002 and was elected to the Order of the Coif. While at Vanderbilt, she served as Executive Student Writing Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and as a justice of the Moot Court Board. Ms. Bracker is presently admitted to practice in all Georgia state and federal courts, as well as several other federal district courts around the country. Prior to law school, Ms. Bracker worked in the fields of education and psychology. As a research associate for Vanderbilt University, her work on second language acquisition was published as part of several national conferences. As a teacher and curriculum specialist for Fulton County Schools, she taught middle school and was promoted to be responsible for mathematics curriculum development and teacher training for the entire Fulton County school district of what was then about 120 schools.

3 From 2002 to 2006, Ms. Bracker worked in a large-firm commercial litigation practice. Her cases included securities, business tort, malpractice, trademark matters, and contract disputes, in state and federal courts as well as in arbitration. In this position, she pioneered methodologies for the large-scale, company-wide collection, review and production of electronically-stored information ( ESI ), leading a team of more than forty attorneys and support staff. In 2006, Ms. Bracker joined Mike Bothwell to focus exclusively on False Claims Act whistleblower litigation. In this position, she continues to remain involved in developing the law around ESI, and currently serves as a founding member and speaker for the Georgia chapter of the ESI Roundtable and a member of Women in E-Discovery in Atlanta. She recently coauthored, with Carrie R. Fowler, The Basics of E-discovery and the Rule 26(f) Conference in the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRIAL ADVOCACY, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2014). Ms. Bracker currently serves as President of the Georgia chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, and speaks regularly at a variety of state and national venues on e- discovery, False Claims Act, and retaliation issues. James Breen, of The Breen Law Firm in Alpharetta, Georgia, is a 1980 graduate of the University Of Miami School Of Law and served as an Army Judge Advocate General s Corps officer until Upon returning to Miami, he developed a litigation practice with an emphasis on the health care industry. In 1991, he was retained by Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., a small Key West infusion pharmacy, which alleged that its business had been effectively destroyed because competitors were using inflated reimbursements for pharmaceutical products to incentivize referrals. Drawing upon Ven-A-Care s experiences and knowledge as an industry insider, Mr. Breen brought a series of qui tam actions pursuant to the federal False Claims Act and similar state laws that, to date, have resulted in or contributed to recoveries approaching $4 billion. The Ven-A-Care cases are an example of successful long term collaboration between a qui tam relator/counsel team, state attorneys general and the federal government. Nancy W. Brown is Senior Counsel at the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General for Health and Human Services. An attorney for 16 years, Ms. Brown has spent most of her legal career focused on fighting fraud. She spent 5 years working for the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs and 2 years working at the Federal Trade Commission, investigating and prosecuting mortgage fraud, vitamin supplement fraud and many other consumer protection fraud matters. Ms. Brown has spent the past 8 years at the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General at HHS, prosecuting civil health care fraud. Ms. Brown works on a wide variety of health care fraud matters, including FCA cases, Administrative Penalty cases, Exclusion matters, Self Disclosure Protocol matters and EMTALA cases. Ms. Brown has investigated and prosecuted a number of Stark and Anti-Kickback cases and also actively monitors Corporate Integrity Agreements required by the OIG. Ms. Brown has received awards from the Inspector General for Exceptional Achievement as well as awards for Excellence from Council of the Inspector Generals on Integrity and

4 Efficiency. Ms. Brown is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the David Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia. Patrick Burns has been the Director of Communications at Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund (TAFEF) since 2004, and was named TAFEF s Co-Executive Director in He is a graduate of Oberlin College (BA) and Georgetown University (Masters). Mr. Burns has spent 30 years in the nonprofit arena, and has appeared on such diverse shows as The Today Show, Hardball, Good Morning America, The Newshour, Nightline and Crossfire. He has authored scores of editorials in major newspapers across the United States, and has worked for 14 years on Medicare, Social Security, and prescription drug issues, as well as an additional decade on population growth and street drug crime issues. Leslie R. Caldwell was confirmed as the Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division on May 15, As head of the Criminal Division, Ms. Caldwell oversees nearly 600 attorneys who prosecute federal criminal cases across the country, help develop criminal law and formulate criminal enforcement policy. She also works closely with the nation s 93 United States Attorneys in the investigation and prosecution of criminal matters in their districts. Ms. Caldwell has dedicated most of her professional career to handling federal criminal cases, both as a prosecutor and as defense counsel. From 2002 to 2004, Ms. Caldwell served as the director of the Justice Department s Enron Task Force. When she worked at the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Northern District of California in 1999 to 2002, she served as the Chief of the Criminal Division and the Chief of the Securities Fraud Section. During her eleven years in the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Eastern District of New York from 1987 to 1998, her positions included Senior Trial Counsel for the Business & Securities Fraud Section and Chief of the Violent Criminal Enterprises Section. For her work on the Enron Task Force, Ms. Caldwell received the Attorney General s Award for Exceptional Service. She is also the recipient of the Attorney General s John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation and the Attorney General s Award for Fraud Prevention. Prior to joining the Criminal Division, Ms. Caldwell was a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, a position she held since From 2004 to 2009, Ms. Caldwell was co-chair of the firm s Corporate Investigations and White Collar Practice Group. David Chizewer, is a principal at the litigation group of Goldberg Kohn, and has been featured in the National Law Journal s list of 10 of the nation s top litigators. In 2007, he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Public Justice Foundation. He was a runner up for that same award in He was also named Lawyer of the Year in 2007 by the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund.

5 An experienced False Claims Act litigator, Mr. Chizewer s qui tam cases have returned more than $400 million to federal and state treasuries. Mr. Chizewer has served as co lead trial counsel in some of the country s most prominent False Claims Act and health care cases: Mr. Chizewer was co lead trial counsel for Plaintiffs, and obtained the largest verdict and judgment in the history of the federal False Claim Act ($334 million), in United States of America ex. rel. Cleveland A. Tyson, et al. v. Amerigroup Corporation, et al., a case involving illegal discrimination against Medicaid participants because of pre existing conditions; and Mr. Chizewer was co lead trial counsel for a class of 600,000 children on Medicaid against the State of Illinois in the case captioned, Memisovski, et al. v. Patla, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, obtaining a judgment that secured some of the most sweeping reforms ever to a state Medicaid program. Mr. Chizewer is a frequent speaker on the False Claims Act, including lectures at the Federal Judicial Center, the National Advocacy Center and the law schools of Cornell and Berkeley. In a civic capacity, Mr. Chizewer is at the forefront of the legal issues affecting the education reform movement. He is one of the founders and current board president of the Chicago International Charter School, the nation s largest charter school. He also co founded the Illinois Network of Charter Schools. Mr. Chizewer received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1991 and his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Pomona College in Stuart F. Delery was sworn in as the Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division on August 5, 2013, following confirmation by the United States Senate. He has led the Division since March As the Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Delery oversees the largest litigating division in the Department of Justice. Each year, the Civil Division represents some 200 client agencies in approximately 50,000 different matters. The Civil Division represents the United States in legal challenges to Congressional statutes, Administration policies, and federal agency actions. These cases concern federal benefit programs; commercial issues such as contract disputes, banking, insurance, patents, and debt collection; international trade matters; enforcement of immigration laws; and civil and criminal violations of consumer protection laws. The Division protects the health and safety of Americans by defending cases related to national security and by enforcing protections for the safety of food and medicines. Finally, the Civil Division recovers billions of dollars for taxpayers through affirmative litigation, such as its enforcement of federal consumer protection laws and its record-setting efforts under the False Claims Act, including cases targeting health care fraud, financial fraud, and fraud against the military. Since joining the Civil Division, Mr. Delery has focused on cases involving national security, health and safety, and financial fraud. He also co-chairs several working groups of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force established by President Obama in In addition, at the

6 Attorney General s direction, Mr. Delery leads the team of Department lawyers coordinating the government-wide implementation of the Supreme Court s decision in United States v. Windsor, which struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Mr. Delery joined the United States Department of Justice in January 2009 as Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Deputy Attorney General, and later served as Associate Deputy Attorney General. From August 2010 until March 2012, Mr. Delery served as Senior Counselor to the Attorney General. Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Delery was a partner in the Washington D.C. office of the law firm WilmerHale, where he was a member of the Litigation Department and the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice Group, and a Vice Chair of the firm s Securities Department. His practice focused on matters involving securities and other financial frauds, internal corporate investigations, and complex litigation in trial courts and on appeal presenting novel questions of constitutional and federal law. Mr. Delery graduated from Yale Law School and the University of Virginia. He clerked for Justices Sandra Day O Connor and Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court, and for Chief Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Patricia M. Fitzgerald is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Ms. Fitzgerald is assigned to the Affirmative Civil Enforcement section, where she handles a variety of cases including qui tam actions and agency referrals. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney s Office in August 2014, Ms. Fitzgerald was a Trial Attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division. Ms. Fitzgerald joined the Department in 2010 through the Honors Program. While a Trial Attorney, Ms. Fitzgerald worked extensively on mortgage fraud and healthcare cases, as well as procurement matters, and has experience with FIRREA, the Stark Law, and conflict of interest statutes. Neil V. Getnick is the managing partner of Getnick & Getnick LLP, a New York City-based law firm with a dedicated anti-fraud litigation, business integrity and corporate monitoring practice. He is the Chairman of Taxpayers Against Fraud and the TAF Education Fund. Mr. Getnick and his law firm have an active False Claims Act qui tam, IRS and SEC whistleblower practice. Highlights include: in October 2010, together with DOJ, they resolved a pharmaceutical manufacturing violations qui tam case against Glaxo SmithKline, resulting in a $600 million civil settlement (as part of a $750 million global settlement) and the highest award to a single whistleblower in U.S. history; and in 2003, they, together with DOJ, resolved a pharmaceutical best pricing qui tam case against Bayer Corporation, resulting in a $251 million Medicaid recovery, then the largest in U.S. history. For their work in these cases, Mr. Getnick and his firm were selected as 2004 and 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year finalists by the Public Justice Foundation. In 1996, another Getnick & Getnick qui tam case led to a $182 million Medicare recovery, also at the time a precedent-setting amount.

7 In 2011, Mr. Getnick received the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012, he received Cornell Law School s Exemplary Public Service Award. As leaders in the area of independent corporate monitoring, Mr. Getnick and his firm were selected to serve in the capacity of integrity monitor in connection with the World Trade Center disaster recovery clean-up and other prominent Federal, state and local monitorships. Mr. Getnick and his firm have expanded their work into the areas of international business integrity, transparency, corporate governance, and social responsibility. The firm is presently launching a private global anti-fraud and corruption unit, focusing on international whistleblower cases. Michael Granston is the Director of the Civil Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Before joining the Department, he clerked for Judge David Ebel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked for the law firm of Covington and Burling. He joined the Department in 1997 as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Fraud Section. In his current capacity as Director, his responsibilities include establishing the Department's position on matters of False Claims Act interpretation and policy. He has lectured extensively and appeared on numerous panels relating to the False Claims Act and the Department s civil enforcement activities. Susan Gouinlock is a partner in the law firm of Wilbanks & Bridges, LLP. Over the last 17 years, Wilbanks & Bridges has focused exclusively on qui tam cases. The firm s cases have resulted in substantially more than $1,000,000,000 being returned to the taxpayers of the United States. Susan joined the firm in 2011 and became a partner in Susan graduated summa cum laude from Emory University in Atlanta in 1985 and obtained her law degree from Northwestern University in Chicago in She started her legal career in Chicago doing big firm commercial litigation defense work. She left to serve as the legal counsel to a new Illinois state agency. In that capacity, Susan served as a Special Assistant Illinois Attorney General. She played an integral role in creating a new Illinois industry s regulatory structure, a structure that has much in common with banking and SEC regulation. Susan went back into private practice as an in-house general counsel in Chicago for six (6) years before starting her own firm, representing her first whistleblower after moving back to Atlanta in Susan has significant federal and state court litigation experience, including significant personal involvement in qui tam and commercial litigation recoveries in excess of $150 Million. She and her husband live in Atlanta and have a son, age 15. Susan is an active member of her community and has served on the boards of numerous civic and charitable not-for-profit organizations.

8 Mark Hanna is a founding partner of Murphy Anderson PLLC, where he represents qui tam relators in False Claims Act cases concerning health care, construction and procurement fraud. Mr. Hanna is adept at working in the unique procedural framework of the False Claims Act, including working with the Department of Justice and United States Attorneys offices while cases are under seal and in jointly litigating fraud cases with the government. Mr. Hanna also represents labor unions and employee benefit plans in arbitration proceedings and in federal and state courts. He works closely with unions to develop creative campaigns to organize workers. He represents workers in collective and class actions alleging wage-and-hour violations, including overtime, unpaid meal break and donning and doffing violations. The DC Employment Justice Center has awarded Mr. Hanna its volunteer of the year award and its volunteer of the decade award for his work on behalf of low-wage workers. He has experience in international labor rights issues, traveling to the Middle East and China to promote independent unionism and worker dignity. Mr. Hanna is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Coordinating Committee of the AFL-CIO. He was an elected member of the Steering Committee of the DC Bar s Labor and Employment Section ( ) and has organized and moderated a number of programs for the Section. He is active in the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association and Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund. Richard S. Hartunian was nominated by President Obama to become the 48th United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, on December 23, Mr. Hartunian took office on January 3, 2010, with interim status until his confirmation by the United States Senate on February 11, Mr. Hartunian was sworn in by United States District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby on February 19, Mr. Hartunian is a 1983 cum laude graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University and a 1986 graduate of the Albany Law School of Union University. He was engaged in the general private practice of law at the firm of Devine, Piedmont and Rutnik in Albany from 1987 to He served as an Assistant District Attorney in Albany County from 1990 to 1997, where his work on narcotics and violent crime cases led to his designation as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Mr. Hartunian became an Assistant United States Attorney in He served as the Northern District s Narcotics Chief and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Coordinator from 2006 until his appointment as U. S. Attorney in During his tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Hartunian successfully prosecuted numerous large drug, gang, and violent crime cases. He has received many awards for his work, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons General Counsel s Exemplary Assistance Award, the Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association U.S. Department of Justice Award, various Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Regional Awards, and several case-related commendations.

9 In May 2010, Mr. Hartunian was honored by the Armenian Bar Association as the first Presidentially-appointed United States Attorney of Armenian descent. On April 29, 2013, Mr. Hartunian was appointed to serve a two-year term on the Attorney General s Advisory Committee (AGAC). On May 30, 2013, Mr. Hartunian was appointed to serve as the Co-Chair of the Border and Immigration Subcommittee of the AGAC, in which he leads the Northern Border Working Group of United States Attorneys, focusing on U.S. - Canadian law enforcement issues. He is also an active member of three other AGAC subcommittees: the Health Care Fraud Subcommittee, the Environmental Crimes Subcommittee and the Native American Issues Subcommittee, the longest standing subcommittee of the United States Attorneys within the Department of Justice, focusing on improving law enforcement efforts in tribal communities. Initiatives spearheaded by the United States Attorney s Office during Mr. Hartunian s tenure have included: the LEADership Project, a youth violence reduction program designed to reach every 5th grade student in the Albany City School District to help them steer clear of vandalism, drugs, gangs, and violence by developing positive goals for the future; the Albany Youth Court, a student peer review court established to address minor youth crimes; and a Summit on Prescription Drug Abuse, which brought together leaders and experts in public health, law enforcement, medicine, pharmaceuticals, education, and business to address the growing crisis of prescription drug abuse. Kerry B. Harvey serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, where he oversees nearly 100 employees located in Lexington, Fort Mitchell and London. President Barack Obama nominated Harvey for the U.S. Attorney position in January As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Harvey is responsible for leading an office that represents the interest of the United States by prosecuting violators of federal law in criminal cases and defending the U.S. in civil cases. Mr. Harvey, a Kentucky native, brings more than 25 years of legal experience to the position. For the two and half years before his arrival at the U.S. Attorney s Office, he worked as the General Counsel for the Kentucky Cabinet of Health and Family Services in Frankfort, Ky. where he directed a team of 35 lawyers who litigated cases such as health care fraud. In that role, Mr. Harvey also advised executive branch officials within the cabinet and officials with Governor Steve Beshear s General Counsel on legal matters that involved the cabinet (primarily health care and social service matters). He was appointed General Counsel by Governor Beshear in February of In addition to this role, Mr. Harvey served as the Acting Inspector General for the cabinet for a six-month period where he led efforts to prevent and detect fraud in various programs administered by the cabinet (i.e. health care). Prior to his work at the cabinet, Mr. Harvey worked as a partner in a private law firm in Benton, Ky. from 1991 until He spent much of his time litigating civil cases in which he defended banks, hospitals, local governments and local officials in federal court on alleged civil rights violations. Mr. Harvey also served eight

10 years as the Marshall County Attorney ( ) while maintaining his private practice. He prosecuted more than 50 jury trial cases during his tenure. Mr. Harvey earned his undergraduate degree from Murray State University in 1978 and graduated from the University of Kentucky s College of Law in Eric R. Havian is a partner in the San Francisco office of Phillips & Cohen LLP. He has represented relators as well as state and local governments in False Claims Act matters, including the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Los Angeles, the City of San Francisco, and dozens of other government entities. In 2010, California Lawyer Magazine named Mr. Havian a California Lawyer of the Year. In 2008, the National Law Journal named him as one of the Top 10 Winning Attorneys in the nation. He has been selected as one of the top 500 lawyers in America by Lawdragon and one of the top lawyers in Northern California by Superlawyers from 2005 through Mr. Havian was lead counsel in a 2009 FCA action that resulted in the largest settlement ever paid by a defense contractor in a whistleblower case, $325 million, against Northrop Grumman for selling defective components for spy satellites. In 2007, he was lead counsel for a relator and government agencies in a trial that resulted in a $225 million verdict against an electric utility for overcharging its government customers. In 2013, Mr. Havian was lead counsel representing a whistleblower as well as many states and municipalities in a two-month jury trial on liability, which resulted in a jury verdict that the largest PVC pipe manufacturer in the world had defrauded its customers over a ten-year period. Mr. Havian graduated cum laude in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where his team won the Ames Moot Court Competition, and he has taught fraud seminars at Stanford Law School and the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall). David J. Hickton was nominated for United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania by President Barack Obama on May 20, 2010, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 5, He was sworn in as the District s 57th U.S. Attorney on Aug.12, Prior to becoming U.S. Attorney, Mr. Hickton co-founded Burns, White & Hickton LLC in From 1983 to 1987 he was an Associate Attorney at Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, where he practiced in the areas of transportation, litigation, commercial and white collar crime. Mr. Hickton began his legal career serving as a Law Clerk for the Honorable United States District Judge Gustave Diamond from 1981 to For more than a decade, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law, where he taught antitrust. Mr. Hickton is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a Fellow of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County. He has been admitted before the United States Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and several of the U.S. Circuit Courts.

11 Previously, Mr. Hickton was involved in a wide range of community activities, and has long been an active supporter of and participant in organizations which benefit children and the arts. He is a past Executive Board Member of the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and served as its President. Mr. Hickton also was a longtime member of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a nonprofit organization that uses arts and culture to reinvigorate the Downtown. His nomination as United States Attorney marks Mr. Hickton s second Presidential appointment. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Hickton served on the President s Advisory Committee on the Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the request of then-president Bill Clinton. Mr. Hickton is a 1978 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and a 1981 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Colin M. Huntley is a senior trial counsel with the Fraud Section of the Commercial Litigation Branch in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division. Mr. Huntley has investigated, litigated, and resolved numerous False Claims Act matters involving allegations of fraud committed against a wide variety of government agencies and federal programs. He devotes a substantial portion of his practice to matters involving drug and device manufacturers, institutional healthcare providers, and government contractors. During his tenure with the Department, Mr. Huntley has received several awards from the Department and federal agencies, including the Attorney General s Award for Exceptional Service. Loren Jacobson is a partner at Waters & Kraus, LLP in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Jacobson manages the firm s False Claims Act & Qui Tam practice, representing whistleblowers in the pharmaceutical, medical device, hospice and home health care, government contracting, and construction industries, among other areas. She has achieved government or state intervention in many of her qui tam cases, and her clients have been part of several large Department of Justice settlements. Ms. Jacobson also litigates False Claims Act and other qui tam cases in state and federal court. She frequently writes and speaks on False Claims Act issues, publishing articles in The Journal of the Maryland Association for Justice and in AAJ s TRIAL Magazine and moderating and participating in panels at conventions sponsored by Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, the American Association for Justice, and the American Bar Association. She has also guest lectured at the University of Alabama School of Law. Ms. Jacobson earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University, received an M. Phil. in European Literature from Cambridge University, and got her J.D. from Columbia University, where she served as an articles editor at the Columbia Law Review. After law school, Ms. Jacobson clerked for the Honorable Alvin K. Hellerstein of the federal district court for the Southern District of New York and for the Honorable Wilfred Feinberg of the federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Gregory M. Krakower is the Senior Advisor and Counselor to the New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. He came into that position after serving as the Assistant

12 Executive Director of Attorney General-Elect Schneiderman s Transition Committee, and as a Senior Advisor to Mr. Schneiderman s Attorney General Campaign. Prior to those positions, Mr. Krakower worked as Special Counsel and the Director of the Senate Policy Group at the New York State Senate. Mr. Krakower came to the state Senate after having served as a policy advisor to Andrew M. Cuomo from October 2006, during Mr. Cuomo s Attorney General campaign and transition, and then, after January 1, 2007, at the New York State Attorney General s Office. Mr. Krakower was the principal staff counsel charged with drafting and negotiating the 2010 Fraud Enforcement Recovery Act, which strengthened the New York False Claims Act (NYFCA), as well as 2013 amendments to the NYFCA and accompanying rules and regulations. He has also advised and helped supervise False Claims Act investigations and lawsuits brought by the New York State Attorney General. Mr. Krakower has lectured on writing policy and communications for political campaigns for the Roosevelt Institution at New York University, and has taught CLE programs on the New York False Claims Act to private attorneys, state and federal prosecutors, and law students. He graduated Columbia Law School in 1999 having been named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and practiced white collar criminal law in New York City at Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP and Clifford Chance US LLP. He also served as a federal law clerk for the Hon. Roanne L. Mann of the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. Cleveland Lawrence III is a Co-Executive Director of Taxpayers Against Fraud and Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund. In these capacities, he regularly works with whistleblowers and the public, as well as government and private lawyers, and Congress to combat fraud against federal and state funds. In addition, on behalf of TAFEF, Mr. Lawrence files amicus curiae briefs in federal courts across the country including the U.S. Supreme Court. He serves as editor-in-chief of TAFEF s legal periodical, the False Claims Act & Qui Tam Quarterly Review; coordinates the nation s largest annual False Claims Act conference; and manages national seminars on the IRS, SEC, and CFTC whistleblower programs. He frequently speaks at educational events for whistleblowers and False Claims Act practitioners. Prior to his service at TAFEF, Mr. Lawrence spent more than six years as an associate in the Washington, DC office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, working for both corporate and individual clients in numerous areas of litigation practice, including complex commercial, products liability, bankruptcy, antitrust, class action, insurance coverage, healthcare, and employment. He also assisted clients facing internal investigations and administrative subpoenas from government agencies, and he conducted due diligence and counseled clients concerning potential corporate acquisitions. In addition, Mr. Lawrence handled a variety of pro bono efforts, including a guardian ad litem appointment and serving as counsel both to individual clients and to members of a class action lawsuit seeking various disaster relief benefits following Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Lawrence, a native of New Orleans, is also the founder and president of The Lagniappe Education Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides scholarship awards to deserving college-bound high school students from New Orleans.

13 Mr. Lawrence received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1997 and in 2001 he graduated, with honors, from The George Washington University Law School, where he was a member of the Public Contracts Law Journal. He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. Kay Lindbeck serves as the Director of the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) Contract Integrity Center (CIC) and is responsible for overall management and implementation of DCMA s fraud remedies program. Operating under the direction of the DCMA General Counsel, the CIC is a procurement fraud center composed of 7 attorneys (Fraud Counsel) and a management analyst. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, the CIC has Fraud Counsel geographically dispersed in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Dallas, Atlanta, Chantilly, VA and Philadelphia. These attorneys are 100 percent dedicated to the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of allegations of DoD procurement fraud within their geographic area of coverage. Prior to her appointment as CIC Director in July of 2013, Ms. Lindbeck served as DCMA St. Louis Fraud Counsel, where she was responsible for DoD procurement fraud cases in a 12 state region as well as those relating to contracts performed in Iraq and Afghanistan. She monitored case status and actively coordinated with investigators, the U.S. Attorney s offices, Department of Justice, Suspension and Debarment offices, DCAA, buying command clients and internal DCMA clients to maximize remedies and ensure effective legal advice and coordination on contractual actions impacting investigations. She served in this position for 19 years. From 1991 to 1994, Ms. Lindbeck was an Assistant Counsel for contracts at DCMA St. Louis. From 1987 to 1991, she was an Assistant Counsel for the former Defense Contract Administration Services Region (DCASR) St. Louis, handling personnel litigation for the region. Prior to 1987, she was in private practice. Ms. Lindbeck is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the SIU School of Law, where she was Lead Articles Editor of the SIU Law Journal, a member of the ABA Appellate Moot Court team and named to the national Order of Barristers. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. Ann Lugbill is very pleased to be part of the D.C.-based law firm of Murphy Anderson PLLC, with offices in Cincinnati and Boston. Murphy Anderson is a 14-lawyer union-side labor and public interest law firm with an active whistleblower, ERISA, class action, wage & hour, and appellate practice. Ms. Lugbill focuses on False Claims Act qui tam, SEC, and IRS whistleblower actions and assists in the False Claims Act appellate work of the firm. She represented qui tam whistleblower Greg Rudolph in last year s $ 60.9 million settlement with Fortune 500 company RPM and its roofing products subsidiary Tremco in a GSA pricing and quality case. She also represented whistleblower Glenn DeMott in the 2009 $ 2.3 billion Pfizer pharmaceutical fraud settlement involving multiple drugs the largest civil False Claims Act settlement. Representing more than 50 qui tam relator clients over the years, her first qui tam

14 relator client was Jack Gravitt, a pioneer whistleblower whose experiences form part of the 1986 False Claims Act legislative history. Ms. Lugbill serves on the Ohio Board for Certification of Specialists in Labor and Employment Law, certifying legal experts in labor and employment law. She chaired the Cincinnati Bar s Grievance Committee, authorized by the Ohio Supreme Court to enforce lawyers professional ethics rules, and remains a member after over 20 years. She has written numerous articles on employment law, retaliation, and attorneys fees and has been certified as an expert in the area of attorneys fees. Most recently, Ms. Lugbill visited Myanmar (Burma) in November as part of a Rule of Law delegation from the Ohio and Minnesota Bar Associations, visiting law schools and meeting with lawyers and bar associations. Ms. Lugbill co-authored two books: False Claims Act: Whistleblower Litigation (Lexis) and Representing the Terminated Employee in Ohio. A founding board member of the Ohio Employment Lawyers Association and Morrow Fund of Workplace Fairness, which assists deserving plaintiffs with case costs, she is the Sixth Circuit Representative to the National Employment Lawyers Association. Ms. Lugbill graduated from Kalamazoo College and the University of Virginia Law School. Rebecca Martin is Co-Chief of the Civil Frauds Unit in the United States Attorney s Office for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Martin has been with the Office for 13 years and has extensive experience handling qui tam actions as well as other investigations and litigations. She has handled and supervised scores of civil fraud enforcement matters that have arisen under the False Claims Act, one of the Government s primary tools for combatting fraud on Government programs, as well as other civil statutes, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, FIRREA, Stark Law, and RICO. Colette G. Matzzie is a partner with Phillips & Cohen LLP, which has the longest-standing qui tam practice and focuses solely on whistleblower cases. Ms. Matzzie was named one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America for 2011, 2012 and by Lawdragon magazine based on her work representing whistleblowers. Her more prominent cases include: A qui tam case brought under the False Claims Act against Verizon Communications that resulted in a settlement of $96.5 million. Successful litigation that increased a client s relator share in a qui tam case from 15 percent to 20 percent, which added $5 million to the client s reward. A whistleblower case against Boehringer Ingelheim, which paid $95 million to the government to settle allegations that BI marketed three of its drugs for off-label uses and paid kickbacks to boost sales. A whistleblower case against Sodexo involving illegal retention of off-invoice rebates paid by food vendors from public schools and universities that were in effect kickbacks.

15 The $20 million settlement was the largest non-medicaid fraud settlement under the New York False Claims Act. An experienced appellate litigator, Ms. Matzzie has played a lead role in litigation of whistleblower cases, arguing cases in federal district court as well as in the federal Court of Appeals. She is a member of Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund s Amicus Committee, assisting on TAFEF briefs on False Claims Act issues. She also assists counsel for other whistleblowers with cases in the federal Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining Phillips & Cohen, Ms. Matzzie was on the Civil Appellate staff of the U.S. Department of Justice for five years. She served as a trial attorney on the Justice Department s Tobacco Litigation team and received a special commendation for her work. From 1995 to 1999, Ms. Matzzie was a staff attorney with Public Citizen Litigation Group, where she litigated cases concerning public health and safety, access to information, consumer protection, separation of powers and access to the civil justice system. In 1998 and 1999, she taught Public Interest Advocacy as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Matzzie graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in After graduating, she clerked for the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is the 1995 recipient of the Frederick B. Abramson Public Service Award. Daniel R. Miller, of Berger & Montague, P.C., concentrates his practice on complex civil litigation, representing whistleblowers in state and federal False Claim Act cases against companies or contractors who have committed fraud. Prior to joining Berger & Montague, Mr. Miller was a Deputy Attorney General for the Delaware Department of Justice for more than 16 years and tried more than 125 cases to jury verdict. During his time with the government, Mr. Miller served on numerous national negotiation and litigation teams comprised of state and federal prosecutors. Collectively, those whistleblower cases returned more than $2.5 billion to state and federal treasuries. Mr. Miller was previously the President of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units ( NAMFCU ), an organization whose members were responsible for securing more than 1,300 criminal convictions and returning more than $1.3 billion to the Medicaid Program during his time in office. As a member of NAMFCU s Global Case Committee, Mr. Miller routinely worked on large-scale fraud cases. Prior to serving as NAMFCU s President, Mr. Miller was the co-chair of NAMFCU s Qui Tam Subcommittee where he coordinated communications and litigation positions for state governments across the country. From 2003 through 2009, Mr. Miller was the Director of Delaware s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. In that capacity, he served as the state government team leader in coordinating the investigation and prosecution regional health care provider fraud cases involving physician groups, pharmaceutical companies, nursing homes, and hospitals. Mr. Miller graduated with honors from Temple University Law School in 1992.

16 Monica P. Navarro is a partner with Vezina Law, PLC with offices in Michigan and Louisiana, where she specializes in health law and fraud and abuse. Ms. Navarro is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, a former federal judicial law-clerk, and former Law Professor of civil procedure and health law. Her representative matters include FMF class action litigation ($24 million); Johnson & Johnson in re Topamax litigation ($89 million); and GE Healthcare in re Myoview litigation ($30 million). Ms. Navarro has received numerous professional distinctions, including Crain s Detroit Business 40 Under 40 honoree, a Michigan Super Lawyer, a Michigan Top 50 Lawyer, and a Michigan Top 20 Women in the Law. She is a frequent speaker and is widely published on health law topics and FCA matters, including Materiality: A Needed Return to Basics in False Claims Act Liability, 43 University of Memphis Law Review 105 (Fall 2012) and A Look at the Constitutional Implications of Retrospective Laws: The Case of the False Claims Act, 28:1 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 96 (Winter 2011). She holds a variety of leadership positions with the Bar as well, including as Council-Member of the State Bar of Michigan Health Law Section, Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of the ABA s The Health Lawyer, and Vice-Chair of the ABA s Health Law Section Publications Committee. Christen Nedwick joined the Texas Office of the Attorney General in 2002 as an Assistant Attorney General. Since 2003, she has served in the Texas Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and has provided legal counsel in both criminal and civil Medicaid fraud cases in the investigation and litigation phases. More recently, she has focused her attention on civil Medicaid fraud matters. Ms. Nedwick has served as team lead and member on numerous National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units (NAMFCU) global cases that have resulted in settlement; she continues to serve in both roles in other active cases. Currently, Ms. Nedwick is a member of the NAMFCU Global Case Committee and is a Co-Chair for the NAMFCU Qui Tam Subcommittee. Additionally, she is the MFCU liaison to the Texas Civil Medicaid Fraud Division. Ms. Nedwick earned a B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in Prior to entering the legal profession, she taught middle school mathematics and worked in civilian personnel management for the Department of the Air Force. William Nettles was sworn in as the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina on May 3, Immediately prior to becoming the U.S. Attorney, Mr. Nettles was a member of Sanders & Nettles, LLC in Columbia, South Carolina, where he practiced since Mr. Nettles was a sole practitioner from November 1997 to October From September 1995 to May 1997, he was a member of Banks & Nettles, LLC in Camden, South Carolina. Mr. Nettles also worked as an Assistant Public Defender in Columbia, South Carolina from August 1992 through September 1995.

17 While in private practice, Mr. Nettles concentrated his practice in criminal defense, including the defense of white-collar crime, street crimes, as well as several court-appointed capital cases. He has also handled medical malpractice and other civil tort litigation. He has tried over fifty cases in state and federal court, the majority of which were criminal. Mr. Nettles is a member of the American Bar Association, the South Carolina Bar, and the Pennsylvania Bar (inactive). He has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court (11/27/00), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Judicial Circuit (2/24/98), the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (5/1/96), and the South Carolina Supreme Court (11/18/92). Since becoming a member of the Bar, he has received the President s Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the President s Award from the South Carolina Criminal Defense Lawyers, the NAACP Foot Soldier in the Sand Award, and the NAACP Outstanding Legal Service Award. Mr. Nettles graduated from Widener University School of Law in 1995, where he was President of the Student Bar Association, on the Widener University Law Review, and a member of the Widener University Moot Court Honor Society. Mr. Nettles attended the Citadel for his undergraduate degree. Since graduation, he has published and lectured extensively. Patrick O Connell is a founding member of O Connell & Soifer LLP. He previously founded and headed the Qui Tam/False Claims Act Section for a large national plaintiffs firm, and from , he was the first Chief of the Texas Attorney General s Civil Medicaid Fraud Section. He is well known nationally for his work leading that Section to recover, on behalf of taxpayers, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Medicaid by hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical manufacturers and others. Mr. O Connell employed the Texas false claims act, known as the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act, to build a powerful coalition of individual qui tam whistleblowers, the counsel representing them and the dedicated attorneys in the Texas Attorney General s office under his leadership. Together, these united forces worked time and again to expose and put a stop to the rampant fraud engaged in by the health care industry. Mr. O Connell points out that whistleblowers are vital to stopping corporate fraud: We rely on whistleblowers to expose fraud, so the law offers them a financial incentive to come forward. I am honored to be in a position to hold corporations accountable when they defraud our government. Mr. O Connell s experience and leadership in fighting Medicaid fraud has earned him a reputation that fosters trust and cooperation that is critical for the success of qui tam litigation during the government s investigation phase as well as during the prosecution of these lawsuits in court. He has been called upon to testify before committees of the U.S. Congress on Medicaid fraud issues on three separate occasions. In addition, he has testified regarding the effectiveness of state false claims acts to legislatures across the country, including Texas, Maryland, Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota. Texas Lawyer named Mr. O Connell one of the top 50 in-house lawyers in Texas for his work with the Texas Attorney General s Civil Medicaid Fraud Section. And in September 2007, he received the Honest Abe Integrity in Government Award from Taxpayers Against Fraud

18 Education Fund, for making Texas a leader in curbing fraud through the use of a state False Claims Act he was the first state government lawyer ever honored with this prestigious award. Mr. O Connell is AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5.0 Peer Review Rated, the highest level of professional excellence in legal ability and ethical standards by Martindale-Hubbell. In 2005, the Texas Observer published an article, Texas Goes After Big Pharma, outlining the history of qui tam cases and the extraordinary results he and his team had achieved on behalf of Texas taxpayers. Mr. O Connell and his law partner and wife of 29 years, Jan Soifer, have two grown children, and are active in numerous charities and non-profit entities in the Austin area. In his spare time, Pat enjoys handball, golf, scuba diving, skiing, and supporting his Texas Longhorns. Laurie A. Oberembt is a Senior Trial Counsel with the Fraud Section of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She focuses on health care fraud cases. Ms. Oberembt received the Attorney General s Award for Fraud Prevention in 2000 and 2011 for her work on the Beverly Enterprises, Inc. and AWP Pricing cases, and the Attorney General s Award for Exceptional Service in 2001 for her work on the Columbia/HCA case. In 2002, she received an Investigative Teamwork award from the President s Council on Integrity and Efficiency for her work on the Vencor case. She and her colleagues on the Columbia/HCA case also received a Special Commendation award from the Civil Division in In 2006, she and several colleagues received a Special Commendation award from the Civil Division for their work on United States v. Rogan, a health care kickback case in the Northern District of Illinois. More recently, she has worked on cases involving kickbacks in the long term care pharmacy business. Matthew K. Organ is a principal in the Litigation Employment Group at the Goldberg Kohn firm. He has significant experience representing plaintiffs in qui tam/whistleblower cases under the federal and state False Claims Acts. Mr. Organ has handled matters involving off-label marketing, upcoding, illegal kickbacks and referral arrangements, false certifications of compliance with Medicare/Medicaid regulations and other Medicare/Medicaid fraud, as well as Federal Acquisition Regulation violations and defense contractor fraud. As a result of his extensive experience representing plaintiffs in qui tam matters, he is well-equipped to maneuver the unique legal issues and complexities that these matters involve. Mr. Organ has also been actively involved in pro bono matters, including the successful appeal of a criminal drug conviction, the favorable settlement of a prison abuse case and a favorable decision to reinstate disability benefits in an administrative appeal. Mr. Organ is admitted to practice in Illinois, Wisconsin, the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. While receiving his law degree from the University of Wisconsin in 2002, Mr. Organ was elected to the Order of the Coif. He earned his B.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University in 1997.

19 Nicholas Paul is a Supervising Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General s Medicaid Fraud unit, and supervises 13 DAGs and paralegals investigating and litigating civil cases involving healthcare fraud, including California s involvement in multi-state and federal cases involving Medicaid fraud. He is co-chair of the Global Case Committee of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units (NAMFCU). He previously served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General s Correctional Law Section and as a Research Attorney for the San Diego County Superior Court. Before graduating from the University of San Diego School of Law, he was a Navy pilot, serving as executive officer and then commanding officer of a Pacific Fleet helicopter squadron before leaving the Navy for law school. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. Kevin Raymond is currently the Litigation Section Chief with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and has been with that agency since In this position he responsible for wide variety of litigation, including complex class action and civil rights defense; Civil Medicaid Fraud; Medicaid benefits; provider payment and rate disputes; Americans with Disability Act claims; employment; contract and procurement disputes; Medicaid managed care issues; tort claims; monitoring bankruptcy litigation and Medicaid provider overpayments. Prior to his employment with HHSC, Mr. Raymond was with the Office of the Texas Attorney General in the Bankruptcy and Collections Division, with the Elder Law Division from He has also served as the Assistant Attorney General with the Texas Department of Public Safety from , and as an Assistant County Attorney, Fayette County Attorney s Office from Lisa Re is the Chief of the Administrative and Civil Remedies Branch in the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This office, working with the Department of Justice, participates in every health care fraud case brought under the False Claims Act; negotiates and monitors Corporate Integrity Agreements; pursues monetary and exclusion cases under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law; and defends exclusion actions. Prior to joining OIG, Ms. Re worked as an associate at a litigation firm representing plaintiffs in personal injury and workers compensation cases. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a critical care registered nurse. Kelsey Schaefer is currently Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), working primarily with FDA s Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI). She works alongside the Department of Justice in investigating and prosecuting criminal violations of the FDCA and other related health care fraud statutes, and has been appointed Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice in multiple districts. She also manages False Claims Act investigations involving FDA-regulated products, serving as a liaison between FDA and other federal agencies. She has served as lead agency counsel for the FDA on

20 civil enforcement matters and provided legal counsel and advice to FDA personnel on matters concerning interpretation, application, and enforcement of the laws, rules, and regulations administered by the FDA. Before joining FDA, Kelsey was a commercial litigator for twelve years with a large international law firm, focusing on FDA and FDCA matters and worked on a pro bono basis for the Manatee County Public Defender's Office, winning several major felony trials. Adam J. Schwartz is a Trial Attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. Since joining the Department in 2008, Mr. Schwartz has worked primarily on health care matters. He has been involved in health care fraud investigations involving off-label marketing, Medicaid drug pricing, and violations of the Anti- Kickback Statute and Stark Law. Prior to joining the Justice Department, Mr. Schwartz was a Staff Attorney in the Enforcement Division of the Federal Election Commission s Office of General Counsel. While there, he was lead attorney on the largest civil settlement in FEC history. Prior to that, he worked as an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Gregg Shapiro has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts since 2005 and is currently Chief of the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit. His work primarily involves health care fraud, including false claims, kickbacks, off-label marketing, and violations of the Medicaid Drug Rebate statute. Prior to joining the United States Attorney s Office, Mr. Shapiro worked in private practice and in the Consumer Protection Bureau of the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Shapiro is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Stanford University. Lesley Ann Skillen is a partner in Getnick & Getnick LLP, a Manhattan-based law firm focusing on anti-fraud litigation and business integrity. Ms. Skillen coordinates the firm s qui tam practice area. Ms. Skillen and her firm have been representing qui tam relators since the early 1990s. Notable cases include a $750 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline for releasing adulterated drug products to the market (the first of its kind under the qui tam law), a $251 million drug pricing case against Bayer Corporation and a $182 million recovery from Laboratory Corporation of America. Cases the firm has handled have been reported on the front page of the New York Times and on 60 Minutes. Publications on qui tam include articles in the New York Times, the New York Law Journal, and Pharmaceutical Executive magazine, and she is a frequent speaker on qui tam at bar association events. Ms. Skillen is a past Co-Chair of the ABA s Qui Tam Subcommittee and Co-Chair of Taxpayers Against Fraud s Conference Committee. She and her partners have twice been nominated for the Public Justice Foundation Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. Ms. Skillen has almost 30 years of experience in the investigation and/or prosecution of complex business crime and corruption.