On February 10, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pause enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), citing concerns over the competitive...more
Companies looking to set up global capability centers in India should take steps at the outset to assure compliance with applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws and standards.
The FCPA prohibits bribing or...more
After four years of decreased white collar enforcement activity, the Biden DOJ has announced several key policy changes designed to crack down on corporate misconduct: What companies need to know and how they can...more
Historic spending on the 2020 election is driving aggressive DOJ prosecution of criminal campaign finance violations.
The DOJ is increasing its efforts to prosecute businesses and executives for criminal violations of the...more
Criminal investigations will target businesses profiting from the importation into the United States of goods made using forced labor.
The new criminal enforcement initiative seeks to leverage data about corporate supply...more
8/6/2019
/ Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Customer Due Diligence (CDD) ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Forced Labor ,
Imports ,
NGOs ,
Strategic Enforcement Plan ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariff Act of 1930 ,
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
As forced labor and sex trafficking prosecutions steadily increase, corporations may be exposed to criminal and civil corporate liability.
The U.S. Department of Justice and state law enforcement are expected to...more
7/25/2019
/ Civil Liability ,
Corporate Liability ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Criminal Liability ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Forced Labor ,
Human Rights ,
Human Trafficking ,
State Attorneys General ,
Supply Chain ,
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
New policy seeks to reduce the burden of navigating anti-corruption investigations and enforcement actions by multiple authorities.
The new DOJ policy seeks to increase coordination on FCPA and related anti-corruption...more
Increased international cooperation, more aggressive investigations and greater focus on individual accountability.
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kokesh v. SEC, the SEC is expected to prioritize quicker,...more
As the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Italy’s Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato and France’s Autorité de la Concurrence are wrapping up their prosecutions of Europe’s top modeling...more
4/19/2017
/ Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Cartels ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
Fashion Industry ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Modeling ,
Price-Fixing ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
On March 7, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky reversed the October 27, 2016 criminal jury verdict against Kentucky cardiologist Dr. Richard E. Paulus, and acquitted him on all counts of health...more
On February 8, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a list of important topics and sample questions that the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section has frequently found relevant in evaluating the adequacy of a...more
3/10/2017
/ Compliance ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Ethics ,
Federal Pilot Programs ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Internal Reporting ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Risk Assessment ,
Tone At The Top ,
Yates Memorandum
As the Department of Justice is wrapping up its prosecution of over a dozen Swiss banks, federal prosecutors and IRS special agents are analyzing a treasure trove of previously undeclared taxpayer account information that...more
On April 5, 2016, the Department of Justice unveiled a one-year pilot program designed to encourage companies to self-report violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the FCPA). Built upon the Department’s September 9,...more
4/15/2016
/ Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Cooperation ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Pilot Programs ,
Federal Sentencing Guidelines ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Individual Accountability ,
Internal Investigations ,
Remediation ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
White Collar Crimes ,
Yates Memorandum
A leak of 11.5 million documents from a law firm in Panama may implicate politicians, criminals, and celebrities in sheltering of fortunes in offshore tax havens through the use of shell companies. Called the “Panama Papers,”...more
On September 9, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates introduced a new policy aimed at aggressively prosecuting individuals for white-collar crimes. A product of a DOJ working group that started under former...more
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Lumber Liquidators announced in its most recent 10Q that the United States Department of Justice plans to pursue criminal charges surrounding allegations the company illegally imported wood in...more
On November 14, 2012, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act “Resource Guide” (the “Guidance”) was finally published, and at well over 100 pages, it constitutes a “non-binding informal summary” of various statutes, U.S. Department...more