Eoin P. Beirne
Member / Co-chair, White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Practice
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Eóin Beirne, co-chair of Mintz Levin’s national White Collar and Government Investigations practice, is an accomplished white collar defense lawyer who resourcefully shepherds individual and corporate clients through government investigations and enforcement proceedings.
Eóin represents clients in a wide variety of industries in federal and state courts and before an array of investigative and enforcement bodies. Eóin routinely represents Boards of Directors or Board committees conducting internal investigations. He counsels clients on a variety of matters including grand juries, wire and mail fraud, securities fraud, health care fraud, public corruption, insider trading, and violations of the False Claims Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Eóin has secured trial acquittals and dismissals in cases in federal and state courts and represents clients dealing with the DOJ, SEC, State Attorneys General, OIGs, FINRA and other regulatory and enforcement bodies.
Eóin has conducted numerous internal investigations both at the client’s own initiative and following receipt of a subpoena, Civil Investigative Demand or other notice of a government investigation. Eóin also advises clients responding to cyber-attacks and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Eóin Beirne, co-chair of Mintz Levin’s national White Collar and Government Investigations practice, is an accomplished white collar defense lawyer who resourcefully shepherds individual and corporate clients through government investigations and enforcement proceedings.
Experience
Representative Matters
- Chief engineer of the successful trial defense and the only acquittal of a parent, Amin C. Khoury, in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions cases. Mr. Khoury was found not guilty of all charges at trial.
- Resolved a second case on behalf of a charged parent in the Varsity Blues cases.
- Convinced the Department of Justice not to charge several medical practices with violations of the Anti-kickback statute, health care fraud or False Claims Act violations.
- Represented an individual in connection with a federal “pump and dump” securities fraud investigation.
- Currently representing various health care providers in connection with criminal and civil investigations.
- Represented a top executive in connection with multi-billion dollar 1MDB global fraud investigation and prosecution – after presentations to the government, client was not charged.
- Represented contractor in NTSB and grand jury investigation in connection with Merrimack Valley gas explosions – no charges brought.
- Represented several nationally prominent elected officials with respect to grand jury investigations without any charges being brought.
- Convinced the Department of Justice not to charge or sue a number of government contractors in differing industries following investigations of alleged False Claims Act violations.
- Resolved False Claims Act investigation by the Department of Justice and Massachusetts Attorney General into urgent care clinic chain.
- Represented several diagnostic laboratories in connection with criminal and civil investigations by the Department of Justice.
- Represented pharmaceutical company in connection with SEC and DOJ insider trading investigation.
- Secured complete dismissal of charges at trial in federal court involving mail and wire fraud against an individual charged with large-scale fraud.
- Represented large corporation in connection with Foreign Corrupt Practice Act investigation resulting in no charges brought.
- Represented Wynn Resorts and company executives in connection with grand jury investigation.
- Performed internal investigation for board committee in response to whistleblower complaint.
- Routinely represent individual witnesses in connection with FBI and OIG investigations.
- Represented a technology company in connection with theft by former employee.
viewpoints
The Government's Long Game for Investigating COVID-era Relief Fraud
September 16, 2022 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne
Various COVID relief programs pumped $5 trillion into the economy, incredibly quickly, and with relatively minimal vetting. Within that enormous and necessary set of economic stimulus packages was likely the greatest amount of fraud committed on the government in the shortest amount of time in history. This article takes a look at the various issues facing government agencies as they attempt to investigate allegations of PPP fraud related to pandemic-era applications and the role of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee in coordinating and overseeing these investigations.
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The DOJ’s Fraud Section 2020 Annual Review: Financial Enforcement Focused on Major Corporate Resolutions and Emerging COVID-19 Fraud
March 12, 2021 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne, Grady Campion
Health Care Enforcement Kept the DOJ Fraud Section Busy in 2020
March 8, 2021 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne, Grady Campion
On February 24, 2021, DOJ’s Criminal Division Fraud Section published its annual year-end summary. The Fraud Section focuses on prosecuting white-collar crime. The report summarizes enforcement activity in the past year and discusses notable cases from the Fraud Section’s three litigation units: (1) the Health Care Fraud (HCF) Unit; (2) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit; and (3) the Market Integrity and Major Frauds (MIMF) Unit. In summarizing the Fraud Section’s main achievements from 2020, the report also provides valuable insights on what lies ahead for the Fraud Section in 2021. This post focuses on the health care enforcement portion of the Fraud Section’s report.
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Webinar Recording: Health Care Enforcement Year in Review & 2021 Outlook
February 24, 2021 | | By Eoin Beirne, Brian Dunphy, Hope Foster, Karen Lovitch
In our annual webinar, Mintz’s Health Care Enforcement Defense team reviewed the key policy developments, settlements, and court decisions from 2020 and assessed their likely impact in 2021 and beyond.
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Health Care Enforcement Year in Review & 2021 Outlook
February 18, 2021 | | By Eoin Beirne, Brian Dunphy, Karen Lovitch, Kevin McGinty, Samantha Kingsbury, Keshav Ahuja, Grady Campion, Jane Haviland, Caitie Hill
Despite the threat of COVID-19 paralyzing much of the country in 2020, government health care fraud enforcement continued even though the Department of Justice (DOJ) had the added burden of pursuing COVID-19 related fraud. Mintz’s Health Care Enforcement Defense team has reviewed the key policy issues, statistics, settlements, and court decisions from 2020, and in this report we reflect on those developments and also predict the trends in health care enforcement in 2021 and beyond.
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FinCen Issues Statement Regarding Publication of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
September 3, 2020 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne, Cory S. Flashner, Pete Michaels, Jason Burrell
On September 1, 2020, the Financial Crimes Network (“FinCEN”) issued a statement regarding various media outlets’ intent to publish Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs”) and “other sensitive government documents”.
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COVID-19 Relief Programs: Recent Criminal Enforcement and Anticipated Trends
July 9, 2020 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne, Nicole Henry
Leading up to a webinar on July 15, 2020, we are publishing a blog series covering the risks of enforcement against companies that received COVID-19 relief funds under the CARES Act and strategies for mitigating those risks. This third, and final, installment of our series discusses emerging and anticipated criminal enforcement involving COVID-19 relief programs.
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Health Care Enforcement Year-in-Review and 2020 Outlook: Criminal Case Developments
January 22, 2020 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne, Nicole Henry, Jason Burrell, Jane Haviland
As discussed in our article recently published by Law360, criminal health care enforcement in 2019 was in many ways a continuation of 2018, with opioid-related enforcement continuing to be the clear top priority for the Department of Justice (DOJ), in addition to DOJ's sustained focus on prosecuting individuals and data-driven identification of health care fraud. This post provides an overview of our article, which covers these issues and our expectations for 2020 in detail.
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Health Care Enforcement Year in Review & 2019 Outlook: Criminal Enforcement Trends
January 9, 2019 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne
Criminal healthcare enforcement in 2018 once again focused heavily on opioids, targeting manufacturers, prescribers, dispensers and those who contribute to the addiction epidemic, and on prosecution of individuals for a variety of offenses. In addition, the DOJ announced some expected policy changes related to the way it investigates and prosecutes corporations as well as the restrictions placed on corporations after resolution of government charges. We will address each of these issues in this post and will attempt to forecast what we expect to occur in the coming year.
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Narrow Ruling for Privacy at SCOTUS in Carpenter
July 3, 2018 | Blog | By Eoin Beirne
The Supreme Court ruled, at the end of June, that seizing cell-site location information—data that tracks cell phone users’ movements—constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.
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News & Press
Twenty-Eight Mintz Attorneys Named To Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers List
November 22, 2022
The Government’s Long Game for Investigating COVID-19 Relief Fraud
November 11, 2022
Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Practice, Eóin Beirne authored an article published in Pratt's Government Contracting Law Report that explains the federal government's investigation of COVID-19 relief fraud.
Why A 76-Year-Old Top Court Case Could Undo 'Varsity Blues'
November 10, 2022
Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Practice, Eóin Beirne, spoke to Law360 about the uncertain conviction status of the "Varsity Blues" case.
New Mass. AG Campbell Inherits 'Bold' Litigation Mandate
November 9, 2022
Co-Chair of Mintz's White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Practice, Eóin Beirne, spoke to Law360 about Andrea Campbell's victory in the Massachusetts Attorney General election.
Mintz is pleased to announce that Eóin Beirne, a Member and Co-chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Practice, has been named a 2022 Litigation Trailblazer by the National Law Journal (NLJ).
35 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 25 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2022.
Twelve Mintz Members have been named to the inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America list, which honors the nation’s most elite courtroom advocates.
2019 Trends In DOJ Health Care Enforcement
January 13, 2020
Mintz Member Eóin Beirne and Associates Jason Burrell and Nicole Henry co-authored this Law360 expert analysis article examining trends and developments in criminal health care enforcement in 2019, such as opioid-related enforcement, kickbacks and medical necessity, medical devices, U.S. Department of Justice guidance, and more. The article also posits criminal health care enforcement trends for 2020, including the increased use of data-driven investigative tools, continued opioid prosecutions, and scrutiny of new technologies or novel ways of delivering medical care.
2017 Health Care Enforcement Review: Final Thoughts
January 19, 2018
Karen Lovitch, practice leader of the Mintz Health Law Practice, Eoin Beirne, a Member in the firm’s Litigation practice, along with Associates Samantha Kingsbury and Mackenzie Queenin authored the last in a four-part series of articles on health care enforcement trends in 2017.
Fifty-one attorneys from Mintz have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers for 2017 and thirty have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars.
Mintz Members will be participating in multiple panel discussions at the 2017 Boston Conference on Cyber Security hosted by Boston College and the FBI. The event presents an opportunity for leading minds to come together and fashion a more secure cyberspace.
Eighty-Four Mintz Attorneys Named 2016 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
October 18, 2016
Fifty-three Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers for 2016 and thirty-one have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars. The findings will be published in the November 2016 issue of Boston Magazine and in a stand-alone magazine, New England Super Lawyers.
Events & Speaking
Eóin Beirne, co-chair of Mintz Levin’s national White Collar and Government Investigations practice, is an accomplished white collar defense lawyer who resourcefully shepherds individual and corporate clients through government investigations and enforcement proceedings.
Recognition & Awards
- National Law Journal: 2022 Litigation Trailblazer
- Chambers USA: Massachusetts- Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (2022)
- Lawdragon: "500 Leading Litigators in America" (2022)
- Best Lawyers in America: Criminal Defense: White Collar (2021-2023)
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Criminal Defense: White Collar (2017-2022)
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Star – Criminal Defense: White Collar (2013 - 2016)
- Boston Magazine: Top Lawyers – Criminal Defense-White Collar (2021 - 2022)
Eóin Beirne, co-chair of Mintz Levin’s national White Collar and Government Investigations practice, is an accomplished white collar defense lawyer who resourcefully shepherds individual and corporate clients through government investigations and enforcement proceedings.
Involvement
- Member, Boston Bar Association
- Member, Federal Bar Association
- Past Board Member, Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL)
- Past Member, American Bar Association’s Public Corruption and Extortion Subcommittee and the Criminal E-Discovery Taskforce
Recent Insights
Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Practice, Eóin Beirne authored an article published in Pratt's Government Contracting Law Report that explains the federal government's investigation of COVID-19 relief fraud.
Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Practice, Eóin Beirne, spoke to Law360 about the uncertain conviction status of the "Varsity Blues" case.
