Fritz Scanlon

Fritz Scanlon, J.D., is an Assistant Chief in the Health Care Fraud Unit of the Criminal Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity, Fritz oversees all Fraud Section prosecutors in the Miami, Tampa, and Orlando Health Care Fraud Strike Forces. The Strike Forces comprise teams from DOJ, FBI, and HHS-OIG, among other agencies, and prosecute dozens of health care fraud cases each year, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud on Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies and plans. In his time with the DOJ, Fritz has brought charges against a wide variety of defendants, including former professional football players who defrauded a health care plan of millions of dollars, the owner of a major cattle ranch who defrauded a publicly traded company of nearly $250 million, and the owners and operators of a financial advisory firm based in Key Biscayne that defrauded banks and investors of over $150 million. Fritz has also overseen a corporate criminal resolution with a publicly traded health care company, and he is lead counsel in the prosecution of former executives of a publicly traded hospital company accused of paying kickbacks and bribes to steer patients to the company’s hospitals. Prior to joining the Fraud Section, Fritz was a principal at Kobre & Kim LLP and an associate at Covington & Burling LLP. Fritz received a Law Degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Columbia University.