On February 20, 2025, the State Department designated multiple Mexican drug cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations (“TCOs”) as foreign terrorist organizations (“FTOs”). At the same time, these groups were designated...more
4/1/2025
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fraud ,
Mexico ,
Multinationals ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Terrorist Financing ,
Whistleblowers
To close out 2021, enforcement authorities throughout the Americas continued to investigate fraud, corruption, and other misconduct across the region. For 2022, we expect an uptick of anticorruption investigations as a...more
3/4/2022
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Anti-Money Laundering ,
Biden Administration ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corruption ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
El Salvador ,
Enforcement ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Guatemala ,
Honduras ,
Latin America ,
OECD
This summary is part of our regular reporting of trends and developments related to investigations and enforcement activity into fraud, corruption, and other misconduct by authorities in the United States and the Americas and...more
8/9/2021
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Austria ,
Banks ,
Biden Administration ,
Brazil ,
Bribery ,
DEA ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
FBI ,
Financial Institutions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Guatemala ,
Investigations ,
Latin America ,
Mexico ,
Money Laundering ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
UK
As 2020 drew to a close, enforcement authorities throughout the United States and the Americas continued to investigate fraud, corruption, and other misconduct across the region. In this newsletter, we highlight some...more
3/11/2021
/ Bank Secrecy Act ,
Brazil ,
Bribery ,
CFTC ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Drug Trafficking ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Money Laundering ,
NDAA ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblowers
As 2020 drew to a close, enforcement authorities throughout the United States and the Americas continued to investigate fraud, corruption, and other misconduct across the region. Below, we highlight some developments from...more
1/22/2021
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Bank Secrecy Act ,
Brazil ,
Bribery ,
CFTC ,
Consumer Protection Act ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Corruption ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Drug Trafficking ,
Ecuador ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Financial Institutions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Latin America ,
Mexico ,
Money Laundering ,
NDAA ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sweden ,
Whistleblowers
Enforcement authorities throughout the United States and the Americas continue to aggressively investigate fraud and corruption across the region in the third quarter of 2019. Below, we highlight some recent developments and...more
10/14/2019
/ Airlines ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Argentina ,
Aviation Industry ,
Brazil ,
Bribery ,
Chile ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Investigations ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Ecuador ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Government Investigations ,
Indictments ,
Kickbacks ,
Latin America ,
Mexico ,
Money Laundering ,
Peru ,
Popular ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
Recent debarments of contractors by the World Bank underscore the need for entities working under multilateral development bank (“MDB”) contracts to implement effective anti-corruption project finance mitigation strategies...more
10/3/2019
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Banks ,
Collusion ,
Colombia ,
Competitive Bidding ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fraud ,
Indonesia ,
Misrepresentation ,
Project Finance ,
Spain ,
Suspensions & Debarments ,
World Bank
Recently, and without the fanfare that often accompanies new policy guidance regarding corporate fraud, the Fraud Section of the Department of Justice posted a document on its website entitled “Evaluation of Corporate...more