He has long been a white collar trial lawyer with a special focus on health care fraud, securities fraud and other alleged business crimes. Mr. Ansley regularly represents individuals and companies in complex matters involving the Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) and Health Care Fraud Strike Force, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Defense (DOD), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and many other government agencies.

Mr. Ansley is a Chambers USA-ranked, seasoned white collar criminal defense trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor for the Northern District of Texas. He has successfully tried numerous federal criminal cases for and against the government, including recently as lead trial counsel in a month-long jury trial that resulted in a complete defense verdict for his client in an alleged $500 million health care fraud and kickback scheme. His practice focuses exclusively on white collar criminal defense, federal trials and grand jury matters, internal investigations, and regulatory and enforcement actions by federal and state agencies. He routinely handles cases involving the False Claims Act (FCA) and parallel criminal investigations, the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the Stark Law, health care fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), whistleblower claims, securities and other financial fraud, accounting irregularities, insider trading, official bribery and public corruption, government contractor fraud, import and export controls, immigration, tax fraud, antitrust, bank fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, extortion, consumer protection, and mail, wire, and honest services fraud. Mr. Ansley’s practice routinely places him between his clients and the government.

In the health care industry, he regularly defends physicians and other health care providers, practice groups, hospitals, dentists, DSOs, pharmacists and marketers in criminal and regulatory investigations, prosecutions and trials. In the securities industry, he regularly represents public companies, their officers and directors, broker-dealers, financial advisers, advisory firms, and other securities industry professionals and entities in connection with investigations and proceedings by the DOJ, SEC, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and state securities regulators.

Mr. Ansley also has led numerous internal investigations into possible criminal and regulatory misconduct and counsels clients regarding compliance in these areas. 

Before joining Vedder Price, Mr. Ansley served for more than eight years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the Major Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, investigating and prosecuting complex federal crimes. As an AUSA, he led the inter-agency Securities Fraud Task Force, where he prosecuted and tried some of the District’s most complex securities fraud, health care fraud and major corruption cases. Notably, he was lead counsel in the investigation, prosecution and eventual seven-week trial of the International Product Investment Corporation (IPIC) Ponzi scheme, at the time the largest Ponzi scheme in the Northern District of Texas, which culminated in guilty verdicts and decades-long sentences for the architects of the fraud.   

Thanks to his combined experience as a former fraud prosecutor and SEC attorney, Mr. Ansley has an insider’s knowledge of the tactics used by prosecutors and investigators, resources that he uses on behalf of his clients to combat them. This experience makes him uniquely qualified to handle not only these investigations and charges, but also the collateral regulatory, administrative and civil consequences that often accompany them.

Mr. Ansley is ranked by Chambers USA for “Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations,” where he is described as “one of my go-to for white-collar matters” and “very, very well versed in healthcare fraud investigations and defense.” He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2018, was named a “Litigation Star” in the Benchmark Litigation 2020 guide, and has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Thompson Reuters Super Lawyers since 2010. He has been consistently recognized by Texas Monthly and D Magazine as a top practitioner and for the strength of his white collar defense practice. He is a frequent speaker, author and commentator.