Kathleen McGovern

Public Sector and Government Experience

• Established the Healthcare Fraud Corporate Strike Force, oversaw the Strike Force operations in over 10 cities and developed the HCF data analytics team.
• Led joint investigation with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into whether a Fortune 10 global corporation’s senior executives misled investors regarding the valuation of its credit default swaps portfolio.
• Led investigations involving the manipulation by leading financial institutions of LIBOR and the foreign currency exchange (FX) spot market, resulting in parent-level guilty pleas by five major financial institutions.
• Investigated multiple financial frauds related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
• Prosecuted individuals and corporate entities for FCPA and other bribery-related violations, including obtaining corporate guilty pleas that clarified law on agency, instrumentality and governmental control.
• Secured conviction after jury trial of former executives of a financial services company in a US$200 million securities fraud scheme.

Private Practice Experience

• Provided guidance to major healthcare systems and academic medical centers to identify, secure and maximize COVID-19 funding sources, including ensuring compliance with reporting and regulatory requirements.
• Led team reviewing calculations, submissions for, and reporting of, funding received under the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund and other federal funding sources by a major health system following its merger with another, larger health system in order to determine appropriate consolidation, calculation and reporting post-merger.
• Conducted internal investigation for a multinational pharmaceutical company involving allegations of FCPA violations in operations across five countries and on four continents.
• Assisted a federal prosecuting agency in investigating an international network of telemedicine companies, its owners and executives, medical professionals and others who allegedly engaged in healthcare fraud and money laundering schemes that resulted in a US$1.2 billion loss.
• Engaged by a major US collegiate sports association to conduct a gender equity assessment in the Division I men’s and women’s basketball championships; and assist in investigations of potential violations of the association’s rules by member institutions, their employees and student-athletes.
• Led risk assessment of a global telecommunications company’s anti-corruption program and assisted in the remediation of its program following its resolution with the SEC regarding FCPA violations; conducted corruption risk assessments across the company’s worldwide operations.
• Conducted risk assessment for a global chemical company, including targeted FCPA audit and training.
• Assisted a global conglomerate in reporting of its foreign investments according to mandatory federal requirements by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.