Amanda Strachan

Practice Areas

Amanda Masselam Strachan is a seasoned trial lawyer who advises clients in corporate investigations and litigation with an emphasis on white-collar criminal defense and health care fraud enforcement. She leverages her eighteen years as a federal prosecutor, including her roles as Chief of the Criminal Division and Chief of the Health Care Fraud Unit for the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, to help clients navigate complex legal questions arising from the inquiries of federal and state prosecutorial authorities, regulators, and private litigants. Ms. Masselam Strachan has extensive experience conducting corporate investigations and trying complex cases. She is a member of the firm's industry-leading White-Collar Defense and Investigations practice.

Career

While serving as Criminal Chief, Ms. Masselam Strachan supervised approximately 100 federal prosecutors and every criminal matter in the District of Massachusetts, including health care fraud and other complex corporate investigations, and matters involving securities fraud, national security, government contract fraud, money laundering, public corruption, and cyber fraud.

Before her time as Criminal Chief, she served as Chief of the Health Care Fraud Unit, where she was a national leader in DOJ's efforts to combat fraud and abuse in the health care industry. Ms. Masselam Strachan prosecuted and tried some of the most high profile federal criminal prosecutions in the district, including the well-publicized New England Compounding Center (NECC) cases, in which she convicted following multiple jury trials various individuals associated with the compounding pharmacy, which was responsible for producing contaminated steroids that caused the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak in which over 800 patients were sickened and more than 100 died. As Health Care Fraud Chief, she oversaw all parallel criminal and civil health care fraud investigations in the district, including whistleblower complaints alleging violations of the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute. During her tenure at the US Attorney’s Office, she handled several other landmark health care fraud cases, including the $650 million settlement with a strategy and management consulting firm for its work advising opioid manufacturers; the criminal prosecution of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. for fraud and providing kickbacks through its speaker programs; and a $3 billion global plea and settlement with a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company relating to allegations of misbranding under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Ms. Masselam Strachan began her legal career at WilmerHale as a member of the White-Collar Defense and Investigations and Securities Litigation practices. During her time at the firm, she served as a Special Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County of Massachusetts, where she tried seventeen cases to verdict.

Professional Memberships

Ms. Masselam Strachan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and law schools on issues related to DOJ’s corporate criminal and health care fraud enforcement work. She is a member of the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association and a mentor in Boston University School of Law’s Health Law Program.

Experience

Government Experience

Department of Justice

United States Attorney's Office

Chief, Criminal Division, District of Massachusetts

Department of Justice

United States Attorney's Office

Chief, Health Care Fraud Unit, District of Massachusetts

State and Local Government

Special Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Education

Awards