Megan Mocho is a partner in Holland & Knight's Tysons office, where she focuses on government and internal investigations for corporate and individual clients in the government contracts, aerospace, intelligence, banking/financial services, education, pharmaceutical life sciences and medical device industries. Ms. Mocho serves as co-chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Team and co-leads the firm’s National Security & Defense Industry Group.
Ms. Mocho is experienced in civil and criminal matters involving procurement/grant fraud, healthcare fraud, public corruption, procurement integrity, and financial crimes. She has particular experience under the False Claims Act (FCA), and regularly defends clients in qui tam whistleblower actions brought by relators or the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). She conducts classified investigations and handles criminal cases tried under the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA). She supports clients facing proposed suspension, debarment, exclusion or other sanction by agency Suspension Debarment Officials, Offices of Inspector General (OIG), or the World Bank.
Ms. Mocho is co-editor of the Corporate Compliance Answer Book, and serves as the chair emeritus of the Federal Bar Association's Qui Tam Section, a group of federal and state prosecutors, relators counsel, and defense counsel practicing within the FCA and other whistleblower statutes.