John K. Neal
U.S. Attorney's Office - Eastern District of Michigan
Detroit,
Michigan
John K. Neal serves as an assistant U.S. attorney, focusing primarily on health care fraud investigations and cases. He has worked for the Department of Justice since 2002, first as a trial attorney in the Fraud Section of the Civil Division, then as an assistant chief in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division, and now as an assistant U.S. attorney. From June 2009 through April 2011, Mr. Neal supervised the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Detroit, where he oversaw indictments charging 95 defendants with a variety of crimes relating to health care fraud. He has participated in several high-profile cases during his career, among them the trial of a Detroit physician involved in a $19 million physical and occupational therapy scheme (convicted on all charged counts), trial of a physician and a nurse working at a fraudulent Miami HIV infusion clinic (physician received 30-year term of incarceration, one of the longest ever obtained in a Medicare fraud case), and trial of a Chicago hospital administrator (resulted in $64 million judgment for the United States). Following graduation from Columbia Law School, Mr. Neal clerked for Hon. Charles R. Wilson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
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