Brian T. Rafferty

Experience

• Led a healthcare litigation team to secure the full and permanent jury trial acquittal of a client in one of the biggest healthcare fraud cases ever investigated by the Department of Justice. The DOJ in United States v. Perez et al (Rural Hospitals) had alleged fraud totaling more than $184 million.
• Represented the president of a staffing company in one of the largest visa fraud criminal prosecutions ever brought by the Department of Justice, successfully negotiating a misdemeanor plea with no jail time and no fine after extensive pretrial litigation involving the original major felony allegations.
• Prosecuted fugitive banker Aubrey Lee Price in $30 million bank fraud case.
• Led a multimillion-dollar health care fraud prosecution of multiple Armenian organized crime figures.
• Numerous health care fraud investigations, including investigations involving medical practitioners, pharmacies, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
• Prosecuted a $53 million defense procurement fraud out of Fort Gordon.
• Prosecuted a $15 million oil and gas development fraud.
• Participated in a week-long trial of a multi-defendant kidnapping conspiracy, in which prominent businessmen were kidnapped and held for ransom.
• Participated in a week-long trial of a multi-defendant conspiracy to commit murder for hire, in which a local service-member was murdered by his wife and brother-in-law.
• Prosecuted during a week-long trial of a physician charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar pill mill operation.
• Prosecuted during a week-long trial of a conspiracy to commit health care fraud in connection with Georgia’s Medicaid program.
• Representation of the former head of investment banking of a major financial institution charged in the Enron criminal case known as “the Nigerian Barge Prosecution”.
• Representation of an accountant charged in connection with a criminal tax-fraud prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.
• Representation of a senior executive of a hedge fund in connection with a joint investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Attorney General’s Office into the practice of late trading and market-timing of mutual funds.
• Representation of an attorney in connection with an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office into a scheme to defraud the State Office of Court Administration.
• Representation of an attorney in connection with a criminal prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in what was described as the largest insider trading prosecution since the prosecution of Ivan Boesky.
• Represented the CEO of a not-for-profit accused of participating in a $500 million scheme to defraud New York City’s homeless program (no charges filed).
• Represented the president of a health care supply company in connection with a multimillion-dollar criminal Antikickback Statute investigation out of the Northern District of Oklahoma (no charges filed).