Attorney Joshua Sabert Lowther's Legal Cases

Federal crime

US v. A.C.

Dec 12, 2025

OUTCOME: Investigation terminated; no prosecution.

HHS-OIG and FBI investigated our client, the former director of a national laboratory, for Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering based on the client's allegedly participating in a scheme to defraud Me ... dicare of approximately $100 million in reimbursements for not-medically-necessary molecular testing and violating the federal anti-kickback statute. After our having conducted our own investigation into the matter and making a presentation to the investigating agents and prosecutors, we convinced the Government not to prosecute our client.

Federal crime

United States v. F.G.

N/A

OUTCOME: Investigation terminated; no prosecution.

The FBI and a local police department investigated our client for defrauding an individual of over $500,000. We convinced the local police department to terminate its investigation and the FBI not to ... refer the matter for a formal prosecution.

Federal crime

US v. M.M.

N/A

OUTCOME: Investigation terminated; no prosecution.

IRS-CI investigated our client, the owner of a software-engineering company, for the willful failure to pay a substantial amount of employment taxes. After our having conducted our own investigation i ... nto the matter, we convinced the Government not to prosecute our client.

Federal crime

US v. JC

N/A

OUTCOME: Probation.

The USDA-OIG investigated our client, a public official, for Bank Fraud, Wire Fraud, Mail Fraud, and Money Laundering based on the client's allegedly conspiring to obtain over $1 million in pandemic su ... bsidies and loans. Despite the overwhelming evidence against our client, we convinced the Government to agree to our client's pleading guilty to one count of Wire Fraud, and over the Government's objection, we convinced the Court to sentence our client to three years of probation.

Federal crime

United States v. R.C.

N/A

OUTCOME: Investigation terminated; no prosecution; civil settlement.

OPM-OIG and a private insurance company's SIU investigated our client, a chiropractor, for submitting over $3.5 million in claims for services not rendered, all of which the insurers paid. We conducte ... d our own investigation of the matter, and within five months, convinced the Government to terminate the criminal investigation, not prosecute our client, and accept a $500,000 payment as full settlement for any and all alleged losses to the insurers and the Government.

Federal crime

United States v. A.M.

N/A

OUTCOME: Investigation terminated; no prosecution.

DOJ notified our client, the CEO of a major hospital network, that he was the target of a multi-million-dollar health care fraud investigation related to “upcoding" that FBI and HHS-OIG were conducting ... . We conducted our own investigation of the case, and convinced DOJ not to prosecute him, terminating both the criminal and civil investigations against him.

Federal crime

United States v. T.B.

N/A

OUTCOME: Investigation terminated; no prosecution.

DOJ notified our client that she was the target of a multi-million-dollar public corruption, money-laundering, and tax-fraud investigation that FBI and IRS-CI were conducting. The client’s former atto ... rney had arranged for her to plead guilty to money-laundering and tax offenses before indictment, but she contacted our law firm for a “second opinion” before she agreed to plead guilty, and retained our firm three days later. Less than three weeks after she retained us, we conducted our own investigation of the case and convinced DOJ not to prosecute her, terminating both the criminal and civil investigations against her.

Federal crime

United States v. F.R.

N/A

OUTCOME: Drug investigation terminated; $3 million seized recovered; probation for tax charges.

DEA and IRS-CI searched our medical-doctor client’s pain clinic and residence for evidence of his overprescribing controlled substances to his patients and evading business and personal income taxes. ... The agents seized approximately $1.2 million in cash from his residence, and approximately $1.8 million from his various bank accounts. We convinced DOJ not to prosecute him for the drug offenses, for which he faced 97–121 months in prison; we convinced DOJ to dismiss the civil asset-forfeiture case against him, recovering the full $3 million (with interest) that the agents seized; and we convinced the Court, after advising the client to plead guilty to tax evasion—charges on which the evidence was overwhelming—to sentence him to a term of probation, despite DOJ's argument for imprisonment. We then convinced the medical board not to suspend or revoke his medical license.

Federal crime

United States v. J.P., et al. (redux)

N/A

OUTCOME: Not guilty verdict.

The Department of Justice's Criminal Division, Fraud Section charged our client and nine other individuals in a $1.4 billon health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy (the largest h ... ealth care fraud case that DOJ has ever prosecuted) concerning toxicology laboratories' using rural and critical-access hospitals in an alleged pass-through billing scheme. After a six-week trial, during which the DOJ presented forty-two witnesses—including cooperating, alleged co-conspirators—and over 500 exhibits, the jury deliberated for four days before failing to unanimously agree on a verdict, prompting the Court to declare a mistrial. DOJ released all of the client's seized assets at the conclusion of the trial. The Government elected to try the case again with an different expert witness and an additional cooperating, alleged co-conspirator, and after a four-week trial, the jury found our client not guilty on all counts in the indictment.

Federal crime

United States v. J.P., et al.

N/A

OUTCOME: Mistrial; forfeiture dismissed and all seized assets recovered.

The Department of Justice's Criminal Division, Fraud Section charged our client and nine other individuals in a $1.4 billon health care fraud and money laundering conspiracy concerning toxicology labor ... atories' using rural and critical-access hospitals in an alleged pass-through billing scheme. After a six-week trial, during which the DOJ presented forty-two witnesses—including cooperating, alleged co-conspirators—and over 500 exhibits, the jury deliberated for four days before failing to unanimously agree on a verdict, prompting the Court to declare a mistrial. DOJ released all of the client's seized assets at the conclusion of the case.

Joshua Sabert Lowther's Legal Cases (20)

US v. A.C.

United States v. F.G.

US v. M.M.

US v. JC

United States v. R.C.

United States v. A.M.

United States v. T.B.

United States v. F.R.

United States v. J.P., et al. (redux)

United States v. J.P., et al.