A former Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, Josh is a principled and relentless advocate.
Josh previously oversaw and directed most of the Eastern District’s False Claims Act and civil Controlled Substances Act investigations and litigation. In less than five years, Josh’s work contributed to the recovery of more than $85 million in settlements, suspensions, and judgments on behalf of American taxpayers. Josh was also named the Eastern District’s Civil Healthcare Fraud Coordinator, where he worked to develop the district’s parallel proceedings practices in accordance with Department of Justice policy. For his work, Josh was awarded the Executive Office of United States Attorneys Director’s Award for Superior Performance as a Civil AUSA.
In 2018, Josh was promoted to serve as the Eastern District’s Civil Chief. In that position, Josh supervised all civil litigation across the Eastern District’s six divisions: Sherman, Texarkana, Marshall, Tyler, Lufkin, and Beaumont. In addition to managing the Eastern District’s affirmative False Claims Act and civil Controlled Substances Act dockets, Josh supervised the district’s Financial Litigation Unit as well as defensive litigation against the United States, its agencies, and its personnel.
In November 2019, Josh rejoined Reese Marketos as a partner, where he leads the firm’s False Claims Act practice. Since returning to the firm, the firm has obtained more than $180 million in False Claims Act recoveries for the benefit of the United States. Some of his cases include:
- Serving as trial counsel in a declined pharmaceutical False Claims Act case in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey resulting in a $150 million jury verdict (United States ex rel. Penelow v. Janssen Products, LP);
- Serving as lead trial counsel in a declined defense procurement False Claims Act case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama resulting in a $36 million jury verdict (United States ex rel. Marsteller v. MD Helicopters, Inc.);
- Serving as lead trial counsel in a declined healthcare fraud False Claims Act case in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey resulting in a $100 million settlement (United States of America ex rel. Silver v. Omnicare, Inc., PharMerica Corp, et al.);
- Prosecuting a declined mortgage fraud False Claims Act action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California resulting in a $38.5 million settlement for the government (United States ex rel. Thrower v. Academy Mortgage Corp.);
- Serving as lead counsel in a declined healthcare fraud False Claims Act case against a hospital system resulting in the recovery of more than $3.3 million for the United States;
- Obtaining a more than $1.2-million reward from the SEC for an anonymous whistleblower; and
- Serving as settlement counsel for a relator in a False Claims Act case resulting in the first settlement under the Department of Justice’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative.
