Kenneth M. Abell

Practice Areas

Ken's practice areas include: Government Investigations & Enforcement; False Claims Act (FCA) Litigation; Healthcare Regulatory & Compliance Counseling; White Collar Criminal Defense; Parallel Cases; Qui Tam / Whistleblower Cases; and Complex Civil Litigation.

Career

Until 2018, Ken served as Chief of Healthcare Fraud for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Civil Division. Ken supervised more than twenty AUSAs handling healthcare fraud matters and oversaw a diverse practice group that included cases against pharmaceutical companies, laboratories, hospital systems, home health agencies, physician practice groups, medical device companies, billing entities and individual physicians. Ken worked closely with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Food & Drug Administration, as well as with attorneys from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit within the New York State Attorney General’s Office.

Immediately prior to co-founding AEL, Ken was a partner and the Chair of the Healthcare Fraud and White-Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group at one of the largest law firms on Long Island. In that capacity, Ken helped scores of clients navigate high-stakes government investigations and successfully resolved several civil and criminal matters.