One of two federal prosecutors left in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Corporate Health Care Fraud Strike Force after the group was gutted last summer, has joined Crowell & Moring’s Health Care and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups as a partner in Washington, D.C.

But William Chang, the new Crowell & Morning partner, pushed back against reports that the significant downsizing of the strike force represented a decreased emphasis by the DOJ on corporate health care fraud investigations. In the summer, sources told the National Law Journal, that there was a belief within the DOJ that the reduction had to do with a push by the Trump administration to shift health care fraud enforcement resources over to other priorities, including violent crime, drugs and illegal immigration.

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