Qui Tam Section: [VIRTUAL] False Claims Act Today – District of Minnesota

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Hosted by the FBA’s Qui Tam Section, often in cooperation with local FBA chapters, “The False Claims Act Today” is a discussion series that examines the details of real-life FCA practice in specific jurisdictions. Sessions typically focus on a single federal district and feature an experienced local panel that includes an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the district; a federal judge; a relator-side attorney; and a defense attorney. This online-only event will be conducted via Zoom and will spotlight the District of Minnesota.

This event does not offer CLE credit. Registrants will receive Zoom login details on the day before the event.

About the Presenters

R. Scott Oswald – Chair, FBA Qui Tam Section (moderator)

Scott Oswald is an accomplished trial lawyer who has brought more than 40 trials to verdict. His cases have recovered more than $300 million in judgments and settlements. A fellow of the prestigious College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, he received his law degree from Howard University and honed his skills at Trial Lawyers College, founded by the legendary Gerry Spence. Mr. Oswald litigates employment and whistleblower actions nationwide. Among his results:

• First jury verdict under new whistleblower protections in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013|
• First Sarbanes-Oxley Act liability verdict to withstand appeal
• First jury verdict under 2009 anti-retaliation provisions of False Claims Act
• First Dodd-Frank Act retaliation lawsuit to reach discovery in federal court

Mr. Oswald is chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Section and immediate past chair of the FBA’s Professional Ethics Committee. Lawdragon ranks him as one of the top 500 plaintiff-side employment lawyers in the country.

Ann M. Bildtsen, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota

Ann M. Bildtsen is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota, and is the district’s civil healthcare fraud coordinator. She has handled many healthcare and procurement fraud False Claims Act matters in her twelve years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office. AUSA Bildtsen previously served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota and has also worked in private practice. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School.

David M. Glaser, Shareholder, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

David M. Glaser is a shareholder in Fredrikson & Byron’s Health Law Group. Mr. Glaser assists clinics, hospitals, and other health care entities negotiate the maze of health care regulations, providing advice about reimbursement and business planning issues. He has considerable experience in health care regulation and litigation, including compliance, criminal and civil fraud investigations, and reimbursement disputes. Mr. Glaser’s goal is to explain the government’s enforcement position, and to analyze whether this position is supported by the law or represents government overreaching.

David Kiesow, Special Agent, U.S. Department of Human Services, Office of Inspector General

Dave Kiesow is a Special Agent with the United States Department of Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations (“DHHS-OIG”), assigned to the St. Paul, Minnesota, Field Office. Mr. Kiesow has been a Special Agent for over twenty years leading investigations of criminal and civil cases related to programs administered or funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which includes investigating health care fraud committed against the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Mr. Kiesow previously spent seven years conducting health care fraud and white-collar investigations as a Senior Investigator with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office (Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and Criminal Division) and as a Senior Investigator for Medica Health Plans’ Special Investigations Unit.

Kirsi Poupore, Assistant Attorney General- Consumer, Wage, and Antitrust Division, Minnesota Attorney General’s Office

Kirsi Poupore joined the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office in 2012 and currently serves as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office’s Consumer, Wage and Antitrust Division, where she investigates and litigates Minnesota False Claims Act cases and consumer protection matters. From 2016 to 2021, she served as Director of the Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which prosecutes health care provider fraud in Minnesota’s Medical Assistance Program and certain abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation cases. Ms. Poupore graduated magna cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law.

Nathaniel Smith, Attorney, Halunen Law

Nathaniel Smith is an attorney with Halunen Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Inspired by his parents’ work in the medical field, especially in geriatric and hospice care, Mr. Smith chose to focus his legal career on addressing fraud against the government through False Claims Act and retaliation litigation. He represents whistleblowers across the United States in areas including health care, pharmaceuticals, customs, procurement, and defense contracting. Mr. Smith has also brought successful retaliation claims in connection with False Claims Act /qui tam cases and as stand-alone actions. Mr. Smith is frequent speaker on False Claims Act topics and has often spoken on the interpretation of materiality under the False Claims Act

Hon. John F. Docherty, U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Minnesota

On July 22, 2021, John F. Docherty was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota.

Judge Docherty served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota as an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2002 until his appointment. He prosecuted a wide range of cases, but focused on international and domestic terrorism, civil rights cases, and cases involving the illegal export of sensitive U.S. technology. Between 2006 and 2008, Judge Docherty left the U.S. Attorney’s Office to work as a prosecutor at the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, the Netherlands. There, he was a senior member of the prosecution team at the trial of General Dragomir Milosevic, who was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his actions as commander of the troops besieging Sarajevo from 1992 to 1994. Judge Docherty was also a senior member of the prosecution team in the case against the chief and deputy chief of Yugoslavia’s combined foreign intelligence and internal security service.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Docherty worked at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. and in the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General, where he worked in the Antitrust Division and the Criminal Division.

Judge Docherty is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served on the Law Review. He has been an adjunct associate professor of law at the University several times, teaching national security law. He is a current member and past President of the Warren E. Burger American Inn of Court in Saint Paul, and is also active in the Federal Bar Association, where he is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Registration

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No refunds will be made for cancellations received after the close of business on May 24, 2022. No-shows will be billed. Substitutions may be made at any time upon notification. Please contact Daniel Hamilton at dhamilton@fedbar.org with cancellation and/or substitution requests.

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