Holly Barker

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Legal Reporter at Bloomberg Law

Texan, lawyer, live music enthusiast, and senior legal reporter @BLaw | she/badass/her | formerly @arnoldporter @morganlewislaw (https://t.co/rJ3mBHIzBP)

Articles

Novel Medicare Advantage Fraud Theory Falters in HealthSun Case

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Holly Barker

Defense sought to admit government’s exhibits to educate juryProsecution didn’t have much to show in the way of motiveProsecutors offered surprisingly little evidence to support their theory of fraud in their failed attempt to convict former HealthSun Health Plans Inc. coding supervisor Kenia Valle Boza last week, attorneys familiar with the case say.
Warrantless Search of Man on Probation Upheld by Circuit Panel

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Holly Barker

A California man who pleaded guilty to federal drug and firearm offenses lost his Ninth Circuit appeal over a warrantless search of an apartment when the court said police officers had probable cause to believe he lived there. The court distinguished a 2013 ruling, United States v. Grandberry, in which the court found a warrantless search of a parolee subject to search conditions unconstitutional, emphasizing that the probable-cause analysis is always a fact-intensive one.
Warrantless Search of Man on Probation Upheld by Circuit Panel

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Holly Barker

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Warrantless Search of Man on Probation Upheld by Critical Panel

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Holly Barker

Two judges want full court to revisit controlling caselawThird judge says her colleagues’ frustration is misplacedA California man who pleaded guilty to federal drug and firearm offenses lost his Ninth Circuit appeal over a warrantless search of an apartment when the court said police officers had probable cause to believe he lived there. The court distinguished a 2013 ruling, United States v.
DC Police Officer Entitled to New Trial in Close PPP Fraud Case

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Holly Barker

A former Washington, D.C. police officer convicted of pandemic loan fraud was properly granted a new trial after the district court failed to provide a no-adverse-inference instruction to the jury, a federal appeals court said Friday.
Ex-HealthSun Coding Director Found Not Guilty of Fraud Scheme

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Holly Barker

DOJ declined to prosecute HealthSun after self-disclosureCompany agreed to return $53 million in Medicare overpaymentsA former HealthSun Health Plans Inc. coding director accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to fraudulently inflate the company’s Medicare payments has been acquitted of criminal charges. The jury returned its not guilty verdicts on June 13 following just four hours of deliberation. The trial, before Judge Kathleen M.
Ex-HealthSun Coding Director Found Not Guilty of Fraud Scheme

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Holly Barker

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DC Police Officer Entitled to New Trial in Close PPP Fraud Case

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Holly Barker

Case relied on circumstantial evidence, appeals court saysJury was primed to draw inferences about defendant’s silenceA former Washington, D.C. police officer convicted of pandemic loan fraud was properly granted a new trial after the district court failed to provide a no-adverse-inference instruction to the jury, a federal appeals court said Friday.
DC Police Officer Entitled to New Trial in Close PPP Fraud Case

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Holly Barker

A former Washington, D.C. police officer convicted of pandemic loan fraud was properly granted a new trial after the district court failed to provide a no-adverse-inference instruction to the jury, a federal appeals court said Friday. The evidence in the case was close, and the jury could have held Roberto Adams’s decision not to testify against him without an instruction not to, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said.
Dallas Developer Acquitted on City Councilmember Bribery Charges

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Holly Barker

Dallas-based AmeriSouth Realty founder Ruel Hamilton has been found not guilty of federal programs bribery charges following a six-day jury trial in the Northern District of Texas. The jury heard closing arguments on Tuesday and returned its verdict Thursday. He’d been charged with one count of conspiracy and two counts of bribery concerning a local government receiving federal benefits.