Charles “Chip” Mulaney

Overview

Charles “Chip” Mulaney is a Principal in Goldberg Kohn’s Litigation Practice Group. He has more than two decades of litigation and trial experience, including handling complex litigation, government investigations, False Claims Act cases, and commercial disputes.

Before joining Goldberg Kohn in November 2025, Chip was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where he was a member of the Violent Crimes and Financial Crimes groups. As a federal prosecutor, Chip specialized in health care fraud, including schemes involving skilled nursing facilities, mental health counseling, and COVID-19 testing. He first-chaired trials involving drug trafficking, bank robbery, gun crime, and sex trafficking of minors, and argued numerous motions, sentencing hearings and appeals.

While he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Georgia, Chip served as Deputy Chief for the Civil Division and supervised five attorneys. In Savannah, he ran numerous qui tam investigations under the False Claims Act, from interviewing the whistleblower, investigating the alleged wrongdoers, and then litigating and resolving cases involving health care fraud, tariff duty evasion, and fraud by military contractors.

Early in his legal career, Chip was a litigator with Perkins Coie, where he handled internal investigations, criminal defense, product liability actions and complex commercial litigation. In 2006-2007, he served as a Law Clerk for the Hon. Mark Filip of the Northern District of Illinois.

Presentations

• "Individual Liability,” government representative in panel presentation at the Health Care Enforcement Compliance Institute, Oct. 2016.
• "Qui Tam Litigation," government representative in panel presentation at the Georgia ILCE "Whistleblower Law Symposium," March 2015.
• "False Claims Act," government representative in panel presentation at the Health Care Compliance Association Conference, Jan. 2015.

Credentials