ation combating these forms of fraud and conspiracy is becoming increasingly stronger. On May 20, 2009, President Obama signed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, or FERA, which serves as an amendment to the False Claims Act, or FCA (Heffes). FERA is intended to produce improved mortgage fraud enforcement as well as fraud related to securities and commodities, financial institutions, and federal assistance/relief programs (Heffes). New standards of disclosure for medications have been put into place to warn consumers about the dangers of prescription drugs (Kondro 839). Moreover, although doctors and lawyers have been exempt for years from state consumer protection laws by virtue of the fact that their own licensing agencies and professional associations regulate them, doctors are now more vulnerable to consumer protection suits; these suits "are being filed more often against doctors, and courts are permitting them" (Rice 30). Fraud perpetrated over the Internet is another form that is receiving increased attention. With respect to online pharmacies, the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act now makes it illegal to "distribute controlled substances that are prescription drugs over the Internet without a valid prescription, or to advertise for such distribution," and the U.S. Sentencing Commission made multiple amendments to the Sentencing Gu
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