Didn’t We Just Say 3 White Collar Criminal Defense Lawyers Joined Arnold & Porter? Now, Make That 4!

Just the other day we noted that the law firm of Arnold & Porter had boosted its white collar criminal defense practice by adding partners John Nassikas and Baruch Weiss and counsel Laura Lester. The firm continues to make news – today it added Kirk Ogrosky, a veteran white collar prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice (pictured), as a partner in the white collar criminal defense and FDA/healthcare practices. 

As the Deputy Chief of the Fraud Section in charge of criminal healthcare matters at the Department of Justice from 2006 to 2010, Ogrosky handled cases involving pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, hospitals, managed care organizations, pharmacies, home health agencies, and skilled nursing facilities. He investigated hundreds of cases and took 36 defendants through trial to jury verdict in criminal cases involving alleged kickbacks, false claims, up-coding, cost report fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering.
 
Ogrosky led investigations, prosecutions, and the coordination of white collar matters in the Fraud Section involving healthcare fraud, corporate fraud, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. He created and managed the Medicare Fraud Strike Force since 2006. He served on the Operations, Data, and Pharmaceutical enforcement committees of the Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT).  In February 2009, Congressional Quarterly wrote, “Ogrosky has turned conventional white collar prosecution on its head” in the world of healthcare fraud.
 
For our recent post on the firm, see http://www.financialfraudlaw.com/lawblog/explosive-growth-white-collar-criminal-defense-continues-three-more-lawyers-join-arnold-port.