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Post & Schell PC
Philadelphia, PA
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John N. Joseph, a former Assistant United States Attorney prior to joining Post & Schell, P.C. in 2005, possesses extensive complex investigation and trial experience in significant civil and criminal cases. He is a Partner in the firm’s White Collar Defense, Compliance & Risk Management Practice Group, joining forces with his former colleague Ronald H. Levine, who, prior to joining Post & Schell, headed the Criminal Division in the Philadelphia Office of the United States Attorney.
Mr. Joseph began his legal career following law school graduation as a trial attorney in the Attorney General’s Honor Program in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Fraud Section. Serving there from 1986 to 1989, he handled large white-collar fraud matters for government agencies, notably complex contractor fraud cases for the Department of Defense and NASA. He spent the next eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recovering over $100 million in settlements and judgments in fraud cases spanning a variety of industries.
In 1998, Mr. Joseph became Deputy Chief, Affirmative Litigation for the Civil Division, directly under Civil Division Chief Jim Sheehan, supervising all litigation brought under the federal False Claims Act, including healthcare and defense contractor qui tam actions. He also served on DOJ’s National Fraud Working Group, setting policy and conducting training for the department’s nationwide efforts to fight corporate and national healthcare fraud. He then switched from civil to criminal prosecution in 2003, investigating and prosecuting a variety of financial institution fraud cases.
Mr. Joseph’s prosecutorial credits include a $95 million federal New Jersey Superfund site settlement involving landfill construction fraud; a $16 million healthcare fraud settlement with a national dialysis provider for over-utilization claims; a $22 million settlement from a bulk mailer who defrauded the United States Postal Service on postal rates; and a settlement in which a leading pharmaceutical company was required to pay a record fine under the Clean Water Act and adhere to a compliance plan requiring the regional sewer authority to promulgate new industrial waste limits for a newly rebuilt sewage treatment plant.
Bar Memberships
District of Columbia, 1987
New Jersey, 1986
Pennsylvania, 1986
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1983
Juris Doctor, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1986 Dean’s List, Recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award, Civil Procedure