Parker Poe

Health Care & Consumer Safety

• Successful representation of rural critical access hospital victimized by a multimillion-dollar billing scam, successfully advocating for the struggling victim hospital to receive first priority in distribution of restitution funds — ahead of other victimized entities.
• Successfully negotiated and litigated numerous FDA, FTC, and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issues, including off-label marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, tobacco fraud and regulation, FDA approval and clinical testing, compounding pharmacies, and Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) and food and drug inspection issues.
• Represent quality assurance executive in (separate) health care fraud, investor fraud, and corruption investigations surrounding COVID-19 vaccine contamination event being conducted by the DOJ, SEC, and Congressional committees.
• Represented quality assurance manager of dietary supplement manufacturer in grand jury and FDA investigations regarding sale of contaminated batches of products. Resulted in no charges being brought against client.
• Represented over-the-counter drug supplier in recall action brought by the CPSC.
• Conducted internal investigation for pharmaceutical company regarding fraudulent activities by corporate development executive.
• Preserved license and kept doors open at a compounding pharmacy confronted with allegations by industry and government that it was producing an alternative version of an FDA-approved drug outside the parameters of Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) 503A and 503B.
• Represent cardiology practice and its principal in DOJ investigation of suspected Stark and billing violations.
• Represent chain of vape stores in enforcement action by DOJ and FDA for violating laws on marketing unapproved tobacco products.

Corruption & Government Contracting

• Represented government contractor in investigation of anticompetitive bidding practices in Defense Department (DoD) purchasing program.
• Member of the DOJ trial team in United States' Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) enforcement action against the tobacco industry, United States v. Philip Morris.
• Persuaded the DOJ and the DOD Criminal Investigative Service to drop criminal charges against government contractor who had been arrested for allegedly selling fraudulent and non-conforming parts to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
• Successfully prevented charges and other actions from being brought against construction-consulting firm and its principal who were targets in District of Columbia City Council "pay for play" investigation conducted by the DOJ, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Department of Labor's (DOL) Inspector General.
• Convinced the DOJ not to prosecute or pursue other action against CEO of subsidiary to large public utility who was identified as a target of an "8(a) set-aside" fraud investigation brought by the DOJ Antitrust Division and Public Corruption Section.

Export Control

• Protected corporate client against DOJ bringing charges after a multi-year grand jury investigation on the alleged grounds of violating International Emergency Economic Powers Act's export control provisions.
• Represent exporter investigated by United Nations Security Council Affairs Division regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (on Iran nuclear program).

Financial Services & Corporate Fraud

• Defended consumer bank investigated for collusion to lower the "return rate" of transactions in order to mask multimillion-dollar international scheme by shell companies to systematically drain accounts of bank customers. Bank cleared of all suspicion.
• Represent company in an industry-wide criminal price-fixing and bid-rigging investigation by the DOJ's Antitrust Division. Client was not charged.
• Represent private law firm investigated for its potential role in suspected tax-fraud-through-bankruptcy scheme.
• Represent community bank for suspected role in scheme of covering up thefts from accounts by artificial manipulation of businesses' charge-back rates. 
• Retained by audit committee of public company to investigate allegations against its board chair for misappropriation of corporate funds.
• Dissuade SEC from bringing insider trading case against medical device company's corporate controller.
• Defended former chairman of Philadelphia area bank against TARP-fraud, investor fraud and bank fraud charges brought by the DOJ, working in conjunction with the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (SIGTARP) and the IRS. Trial resulted in a split verdict.
• Persuaded the DOJ and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) not to prosecute or otherwise bring action against luxury home real estate corporation and its managing broker who were targets of mortgage fraud and bank fraud investigation.
• Represented investment advisor prosecuted in New York federal court for securities fraud and tax fraud in case brought by the DOJ and the IRS.

Immigration & International Matters

• Obtained declination of charges for business owner who, originally having entered the United States through diplomatic channels, was targeted in immigration fraud investigation brought by the DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security's National Security and Joint Terrorism Task Force.
• Represent nationwide staffing company in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation into pattern of I-9 processing failures.
• Represented foreign national business owners targeted in cross-border immigration fraud conspiracy to bring illegal workers into businesses across the United States in prosecution brought by the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section of the DOJ, the DOL and the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service.
• Defended international subsidiary against corruption charges before the World Bank Sanctions Board.
• Served as U.S. counsel to defend foreign nationals against extradition to Eastern District of New York for offshore trading and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) violation, and to challenge legality of extraterritorial detention and search for evidence by foreign and U.S. authorities.

Miscellaneous

• Successfully represented midwestern corporation in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation alleging corruption to avoid foreign environmental regulations that would constrain sales of its product in that market.
• Successful trial defense of Arkansas Public Service Commission against preemption and commerce clause challenges to its rate setting authority. Verdict upheld in United States Court of Appeals.
• Successful trial defense of Arkansas Public Service Commission against preemption and commerce clause challenges to its rate setting authority.
• Counsel for internal cybersecurity investigation of payment processing company; matter resolved without any government or private claims.
• Represented target of criminal investigation into renewable fuels (RINs) and tax credit fraud brought by DOJ Environmental and Natural Resources Division, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the IRS.
• Represented Canadian nationals in investigation of alleged interstate cigarette smuggling by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
• Defended online education company against civil action brought by the FTC alleging deceptive advertising and marketing fraud.