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The Guide to Anti-Money Laundering: Trade-Based Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Trade-based money laundering (TBML) describes a set of techniques through which drug traffickers, terrorists and other criminals use the veneer of trade to move illicit funds across borders while disguising the origin and...more

DOJ Announces Policy Changes to “Invigorate” Efforts to Combat Corporate Crime - Japanese Version

今回の米国司法省の政策変更において、司法省は個人の責任に一層の重点を置き、また企業の過去の違法行為に対しては包括的な評価を行い、さらに企業との司法解決に対してはより厳格な対応をすることとなる - 2021年10月28日、米国司法省 (United States Department of Justice、以下「DOJ」)...more

Supreme Court Revisits Insider-Trading Liability

Salman reaffirms Dirks and holds that a “gift” of inside information to a trading relative or friend continues to meet the personal-benefit requirement. The Salman Prosecution - In 2011, Bassam Yacoub Salman was...more

Virtual Currencies: Court Rules that Selling Bitcoin Is Not Money Transmitting and Selling Bitcoin to Criminals Is Not a Crime

The ruling is an outlier driven by its unique facts and is unlikely to change the general regulatory landscape for Bitcoin businesses. In State of Florida v. Espinoza, a trial court in Miami recently dismissed all...more

DOJ Guidance Prioritizes Individuals in Criminal and Civil Corporate Enforcement Actions

A serious shift of focus to individual accountability may impact traditional corporate defense and settlement tactics. On September 9, 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a set of guidelines that formally revise...more

Expanding FIRREA Liability for Financial Institutions: Recent Second Circuit Developments

In a brief — and swiftly decided — per curiam decision issued June 4, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy convictions of three former UBS Financial Services,...more

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