Inhouse, Indict
- Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on January 26th, 2006
- Filed in Risk Management & Compliance
Head over to fellow Law.com blogger the WiredGC to read a post on an in-house lawyer who is in hot water for allegedly participating in a scheme to win a hospital contract:
"This story goes into the “Read and Think Carefully While Drafting” file on the corporate attorney’s credenza.
Last week US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (yes, the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame leak case) announced in Chicago an indictment against Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. and two employees (including an in-house lawyer) on fraud charges related to the awarding of a $49 million Cook County, Illinois hospital contract. The structure of a Siemens entity is alleged to have been designed to appear as qualifying for minority bidding status.
The in-house lawyer involved is alleged to have drafted documents creating the bidding entity, and was indicted on one count each of wire fraud, mail fraud and making false statements to the FBI."
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