From In-House Counsel to Inmate: Meet the Former GC of WellCare Health Plans
Date of Event
11-11-2022
Description
An inside account of one lawyer’s fall from billion dollar public company executive to criminal defendant in a major healthcare fraud prosecution, to federal prison inmate, and…back.
Speaker Bio
Thad Bereday was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of WellCare Health Plans from 2002-2008. Thad’s legal career ended when WellCare was raided by 200 federal agents, setting off a decade long odyssey through the criminal legal system.
So began a grueling descent during which Bereday lost his job, his law license, his health, his family, and his freedom. He later received a presidential pardon. Today, he is an advocate for criminal justice reform and the possibility of redemption.
Edmund W. Searby (moderator) is a partner at Porter Wright and an adjunct faculty member at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is a former federal prosecutor in Florida and a Special Deputy Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C. He represented an executive (other than Bereday) in the criminal investigation of WellCare.
Subject Headings
criminal law, Thad Bereday, Thad Bereday and presidential pardon, wrongful conviction
Location
CWRU School of Law, A59, Mootcourt Room
Document Type
Video
Recommended Citation
Bereday, Thad, "From In-House Counsel to Inmate: Meet the Former GC of WellCare Health Plans" (2022). Conferences and Symposia. 981.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/law_videos_general/981