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Sills Cummis & Gross

P.C.

J

ACK

W

ENIK

member of the firm

co-chair of the health care government investigations practice group

S

PECIALTY

:

Health Care Investigations

Health Care Litigation

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REAS OF

E

MPHASIS

Health Care Fraud Internal Investigations

Doctor Disciplinary Proceedings Health Care Litigation

Health Care Regulatory Proceedings White Collar Criminal Defense

E

DUCATION

• J.D., Yale Law School, 1985 Editor, Yale Law Journal

Editor, Yale Law & Policy Review

• B.A., SUNY at Albany, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982

JACK WENIK has extensive federal and state bench and jury trial experience. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Wenik was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for both the Eastern Districts of New York and Pennsylvania. While an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Wenik was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of complex fraud and business crimes. Mr. Wenik has published articles in the Yale

Law Journal and the Yale Law & Policy Review as well as in Compliance Today

(Health Care Compliance Association), the Journal of Health Care Compliance,

Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, the New Jersey Lawyer and the New Jersey Law Journal, among other publications, and has numerous reported decisions in state and

federal court.

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perpetrated by and against health care practitioners and hospitals. At Sills Cummis, Mr. Wenik has represented various health care clients including several New Jersey health care systems and hospitals, physicians, pharmacies and other health care providers. He has represented and counseled New Jersey and New York medical centers, long-term care facilities, doctors and hospitals in various regulatory matters and litigation including state and federal investigations, Medicare appeals, Board of Medical Examiners inquiries and other proceedings. Mr. Wenik also has extensive experience representing pharmaceutical companies in product liability litigation. Mr. Wenik has been selected for inclusion in the 2010-2012 editions of The Best

Lawyers in America®* published by Woodard/White under Commercial Litigation.

He has received an AV Peer Review Rating, the highest rating, for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability by Martindale-Hubbell®.*

*For ranking methodologies, please see www.bestlawyers.com and www.martindale.com.

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ELATED

A

FFILIATIONS

• Member, American College of Healthcare Executives • Member, Health Care Compliance Association • Member, American Health Lawyers Association

o Member, AHLA Fraud and Abuse Practice Group, Enforcement Committee • Member, New Jersey State Bar Association

o Member & Programs Committee, Health and Hospital Law Section, New Jersey State Bar Association

• Member, American Bar Association

o Member, Section on Health Law, American Bar Association o Member, Section on Litigation, American Bar Association o Member, Section on Criminal Justice, American Bar Association o Co-Chair, Health Care Fraud Subcommittee, White Collar Crime

Committee, Section on Criminal Justice, American Bar Association o Past Co-Chair, Mid-Atlantic Regional Committee, White Collar Crime,

American Bar Association

o Committee Liaison to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New

Jersey, American Bar Association, White Collar Crime, Mid-Atlantic

Regional Committee

• Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers • Member, New York Council of Defense Lawyers

• Member, Federal Bar Council • Member, Defense Research Institute

• Member, Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey • Member, Essex County Bar Association

• Member, Eastern District Association

• Past President, Yale Law School Association of New Jersey

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ELATED

P

UBLICATIONS

• Jack Wenik and Laura L. Hunt, “Florida Patient Broker Pleads Guilty in Massive Medicare Fraud Scheme,” American Health Lawyers Association

Practice Group Email Alert, March 21, 2012

• Gary W. Herschman, Jack Wenik and Laura L. Hunt, “2012: The Year of the Medicaid RAC,” garden state focus, January/February 2012

• Jack Wenik and Laura L. Hunt, “U.S. v. Chavez: Turning Up the Heat on Private Health Insurance Fraud,” American Health Lawyers Association

Practice Group Email Alert, December 20, 2011

• Jack Wenik, “New York Weighs in on the Drafting of Health Care Compliance Programs,” Journal of Health Care Compliance, Volume 13, Number 6, November-December 2011

• Jack Wenik and Matthew J. McKennan, “Attorney and Former Hospital Owner Indicted in Long-Running Hospital Healthcare Fraud Case,” American

Health Lawyers Association Practice Group Email Alert, October17, 2011

• Jack Wenik and Laura L. Hunt, “Seventh Circuit Anti-Kickback Decision:

United States v. Borrasi,” American Health Lawyers Association Practice Group Email Alert, August 5, 2011

• Jack Wenik, “Health Care Investigations: The 'Squeeze' May Soon Come to NJ,” New Jersey Law Journal, August 1, 2011

• Gary W. Herschman and Jack Wenik, “Serono Settles for $44.3 Million,”

American Health Lawyers Association Practice Group Email Alert, June 28,

2011

• Gary W. Herschman and Jack Wenik, “Heightened Fraud & Abuse Enforcement in the Home Health Industry and Strategies to Reduce Exposure in 2011,” Bloomberg Law Reports – Health Law, April 2011

• A. Ross Pearlson and Jack Wenik, “In-House Counsel: Gatekeepers as Targets,” Bloomberg Law Reports – Corporate Counsel and White Collar

Crime, April 2011

• Gary W. Herschman and Jack Wenik, “The New Stark Self-Disclosure Protocol,” New Jersey State Bar Association’s Health and Hospital Law Section

Newsletter, April 2011

• Jack Wenik, “State Offices of Medicaid Inspector Generals: An Update,”

Journal of Health Care Compliance, Volume 12, Number 5, September-October

2010

• Gary W. Herschman and Jack Wenik, “Health Care Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Update,” New Jersey Law Journal, September 13, 2010

• Jack Wenik, “State Offices of Medicaid Inspector Generals: Implications for Medicaid Fraud Enforcement,” Journal of Health Care Compliance, Volume 12, Number 4, July-August 2010

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• Jack Wenik, “Government and Internal Investigations: Special Issues for Healthcare Providers,” New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, February 2007

• Jack Wenik, “Establishing Causation,” New Jersey Law Journal, July 10, 2006 • Jack Wenik, “Corporate Compliance and the Reporting of Crime or

Misconduct,” Compliance Today, May 2006

• A. Ross Pearlson and Jack Wenik, “Are Defendants Better Off Under Blakely?,” New Jersey Law Journal, August 2004

• Jack Wenik, “Supreme Court Continues to Limit Federal Criminal Jurisdiction,” The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, February 2001

• Jack Wenik, “Dealing with Corrupt Employees in The New Global Economy,”

The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, June 1998

• Jack Wenik, “Forcing the Bystander to Get Involved: A Case for a Statute Requiring Witnesses to Report Crime,” Yale Law Journal, June 1985

• Jack Wenik, “The New Police Corps: A Response,” Yale Law & Policy

Review, May 1983

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ELATED

S

EMINARS

• “Medicaid Fraud Enforcement Update 2012,” to be presented at the 2012 Fraud and Compliance Forum sponsored by the Health Care Compliance Association and the American Health Lawyers Association, October 2012, Baltimore, Maryland

• “Healthcare Fraud Update 2012,” presented at the American Bar Association’s 2012 Annual Meeting, August 2012, Chicago, Illinois

• “Interviewing a Witness in Health Care Investigations,” sponsored by LexisNexis, June 2012, Online CLE Course

• “When Investigators Are at the Door,” sponsored by the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Corporate Compliance Constituency Group, June 2012, Princeton, New Jersey

• “Latest Regulatory Developments Regarding Self-Disclosure, New Regulatory Requirements Regarding Suspension of Medicare and Medicaid Payments During Health Care Fraud Investigations, New Developments Regarding Program Exclusion and Attorney-Client Privilege Issues,” presented at the Recent Developments in Health Care Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Program sponsored by NJICLE and presented in cooperation with NJSBA Health & Hospital Law Section, March 2012, Newark, New Jersey

• “Why Go To Law School,” sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania Law & Society Program, November 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• “Strategies for Self-Disclosure,” presented at the 2011 Fraud and Compliance Forum sponsored by the Health Care Compliance Association and the American Health Lawyers Association, September 2011, Baltimore, Maryland

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American Bar Association’s 2011 Annual Meeting, August 2011, Toronto, Canada

• “Strategies and Pitfalls of Self-Disclosure” sponsored by the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Corporate Compliance Constituency Group, June 2011, Princeton, New Jersey

• “The New Stark Self-Disclosure Protocol and Strategies for Proactively Addressing Compliance Issues” sponsored by the New Jersey Hospital Association’s In-House Counsel Constituency Group, December 2010, Princeton, New Jersey

• “Hospital Strategies for 2011 and Beyond: A Symposium on Healthcare Reform and Current Enforcement Activities” sponsored by the New Jersey Hospital Association, September 2010, Princeton, New Jersey

• “Tackling White Collar Crime Issues” sponsored by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, September 2010, Voorhees, New Jersey; August 2010, West Orange, New Jersey

• “Confronting Thorny Ethical Issues in Internal Investigations” presented at the American Bar Association’s 2010 Annual Meeting, August 2010, San Francisco, California

• “A Primer on the Law Governing False Advertising,” a CLE seminar hosted by Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., July 2010, Newark, New Jersey

• “Recent Trends in White Collar Prosecutions” sponsored by the ABA Mid-Atlantic Regional Committee of the Criminal Justice Section White Collar Crime Committee, June 2010, Newark, New Jersey

• “Medicaid Fraud Enforcement” presented at the 14th

Annual Compliance Institute sponsored by the Health Care Compliance Association, April 2010, Dallas, Texas

• “Fraud and Abuse Issues and Avoiding Whistleblower Exposures” sponsored by the Home Care Association of New Jersey, April 2009, Atlantic City, New Jersey

• Moderator, “Recent Developments in Corporate Prosecutions: Views from the Prosecution and Defense in the Northeast” sponsored by the ABA Mid-Atlantic Regional Committee of the Criminal Justice Section White Collar Crime Committee, October 2008, Newark, New Jersey

• “Regulatory and Employment Issues in Reporting Criminal, Clinical and Other Misconduct” sponsored by the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Corporate Compliance and In-House Counsel Constituency Groups, October 2008, Princeton, New Jersey

• “Fraud and Abuse and Whistleblower Symposium: Hospitals Under Siege – What’s New and How to Reduce Exposure” sponsored by the New Jersey Hospital Association, April 2008, Princeton, New Jersey

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• “The McNulty Memo: New Guidelines for Investigating and Prosecuting Corporations” sponsored by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and presented in cooperation with the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association, June 2007, Monroe Township, New Jersey and May 2007, Newark, New Jersey

• “Federal and State Law Concerns Regarding the Reporting of Misconduct by Health Care Facility Employees and Physicians” sponsored by the New Jersey Hospital Association, February 2007, Princeton, New Jersey

• “The Right Stuff: What It Means To Be A Health Care Lawyer - Perspectives And Advice From Prominent Practitioners” sponsored by the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Health and Hospital Law Section, December 2006, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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DMISSIONS • New Jersey, 1986 • New York, 1986

• District of Columbia, 1987

• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1986 • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1987

• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1994 • U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 1996 • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1990

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