The much-heralded end to prosecutions brought pursuant to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) never materialized during the first Donald Trump administration, but Trump 2.0 has the potential to bring major change to the...more
On 23 September 2024, the DOJ announced another significant round of updates to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP) – the guidance document Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors use to evaluate the...more
9/27/2024
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Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Emerging Technologies ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
This week, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced criminal charges against two more decorated researchers from American universities as a result of their allegedly undisclosed participation in Chinese recruitment...more
Late last month, yet another decorated academic from a prestigious American research institution found himself in the crosshairs of a criminal inquiry stemming from alleged undisclosed affiliations with Chinese institutions....more
In August 2019, federal prosecutors indicted Feng Tao, a Chinese scientist conducting research at the University of Kansas (“KU”), on fraud charges. The indictment of a Chinese national by federal prosecutors and the...more
On May 29, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Lagos v. United States and held that legal fees and other costs associated with a victim company’s independent investigation of misconduct ultimately resulting in criminal...more
6/18/2018
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Crime Victims ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Government Investigations ,
Internal Investigations ,
Lagos v United States ,
Litigation Fees & Costs ,
Mandatory Victim's Restitution Act ,
Restitution ,
SCOTUS ,
Wire Fraud