James Martin was a

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as well as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and for the Eastern District of Missouri, based out of St. Louis. Martin is currently a partner at Dowd Bennett LLP practicing in the areas of white-collar criminal defense, corporate governance and compliance and complex business litigation. Martin was previously in private practice at the law firm of

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concentrating in the areas of white collar defense and corporate compliance.

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appointed Martin as U.S. Attorney to replace

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when

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appointed him to the

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in mid-2004. During Martin's tenure, his office settled a high-profile case against Gambro Healthcare alleging that the company had paid doctors kickbacks to get patient referrals in a scheme to defraud Medicare; the company settled for $350 million, one of the largest settlements in

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history. Martin is a graduate of

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and

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