Damien M. Diggs

• Represented Dallas property developer Ruel Malcolm Hamilton in a widely reported retrial that successfully acquitted the defendant on bribery charges.
• Representing a Fortune 500 company in an internal investigation into the billing and hiring practices of one of the company’s subsidiaries. 
• Representing and advising a large auto and home insurer in connection with deceptive trade practice actions brought by multiple State Attorneys General.
• Representing a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm in its response to DOJ fraud investigations in multiple jurisdictions.
• Representing and advising a healthcare company in a contract dispute with one of its physician groups.
• Representing a personal injury law firm in a data breach matter resulting from a cybercriminal attack on the law firm’s servers. 
• Representing and advising a religious organization in its response to threat of prospective litigation by former employee.  
• Representing and advising a regional restaurant chain in connection with litigation strategy and community relations issues relating to one of its stores.   

Prosecutorial Matters

• Led investigation into a pharmacy company whereby the company agreed to pay more than US$105M to resolve several qui tam cases relating to the company’s failure to refund the government for prescriptions it processed that were never picked up by beneficiaries.
• Led investigation into a Fintech company’s actions of knowingly failing to implement fraud controls to comply with its obligations under the Paycheck Protection Program, Bank Secrecy Act, and Anti-Money Laundering Act, causing the Small Business Association to fund many improper and fraudulent loans, through which the federal government will receive up to US$120M in resolution of these claims.
• Investigated a pharmaceutical ingredients company in connection with allegations that it established false and fraudulent average wholesale prices for ingredients in compounding drugs, which allowed pharmacies which purchased ingredients from the company to inflate bills to government workers’ comp programs, resulting in the company paying US$21M to resolve the claims.
• Participated in an investigation—along with other Texas USA Offices (USAOs) and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Civil Rights Division—of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) into allegations that it routinely violated the constitutional rights of children being held in its facilities.
• Prosecuted several healthcare executives who were convicted of conspiring to violate the Anti- Kickback Statute.
• Prosecuted a defendant who used sham contracts and fraudulent real estate paperwork as part of an investment fraud scheme involving purported land development projects, causing victims to lose more than US$2.5M; defendant convicted of wire fraud and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
• Prosecuted two Dallas businessmen who obtained multiple business loans by misrepresenting that loans would be secured by a brokerage account worth US$2M; defendants were convicted at trial and sentenced to six years in federal prison.
• Prosecuted a former senior official in the Guatemalan government, who was convicted of conspiring with drug trafficking organizations to allow for the safe passage of more than 450 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. through Guatemala.
• Prosecuted a network of third-party airplane brokers and title companies for conspiring with drug trafficking organizations in Central and South America to facilitate trade-based money laundering and the trafficking of narcotics through the purchase and sale of aircraft.
• Obtained affirmance of appellants’—an elected official in Richardson, Texas, and a real estate developer—convictions.