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Heath care fraud remains a top priority for the DOJ. This year’s National Health Care Fraud Takedown was the biggest in United States history, resulting in the prosecution of 324 defendants in connection with over $14.6...more
Our last post discussed the financial difficulties that may remain following Red Notice removal. Today’s post will similarly detail the residual effect of Red Notices in government and police databases....more
Welcome to our London Litigation Year in Review and 2024 Outlook. In this report, we examine the litigation trends that shaped the commercial landscape in 2023 and look at how these developments are likely to play out in the...more
This edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights looks at the rising number of de-SPACed companies seeking Chapter 11 protection, the growth of a market designed to assume legacy liabilities, an effort to establish...more
Financial services companies, such as banks, credit unions, lenders, finance companies, loan servicers, broker-dealers, and securities firms, often receive subpoenas from parties in litigation involving their customers,...more
Federal law enforcement takes money laundering and other suspicious transactions extremely seriously. Unfortunately, this does not mean that legal scrutiny is confined to the criminal actors and organizations that launder...more
Key Takeaways - ..In June 2022, the DOJ issued a Report recommending increased cooperation amongst international law enforcement to combat crimes involving digital assets. ..The Report identified characteristics...more
1. AML Laws - Federal anti-money laundering (“AML”) laws are complex in nature and apply to a broad category of institutions and businesses. One of the most important AML laws is the Bank Secrecy Act, which obligates...more
Regulators Provide Greater Transparency into BSA/AML Enforcement Process - On August 13, 2020 the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration, and Office of the...more
The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into businesses and self-employed individuals that applied for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. Over $500 million in loans to over 4.6 million businesses and...more
The Situation: The European Commission issued an Action Plan on Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism ("AML/CFT") in response to recent money laundering scandals and concerns of an increase in crime due...more
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits payment of bribes to foreign officials to assist with obtaining or retaining business. It requires companies whose securities are listed in the US to maintain books and...more
To illustrate just how creative phishing campaigns have become, on January 30, 2019, it was reported by multiple credit unions that Bank Secrecy Act officers at credit unions around the country received emails that appeared...more
In the wake of this week’s revelations of years-long and significant alleged money laundering failures involving ING Bank and Danske Bank, European regulators have circulated a confidential “reflection paper” warning national...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced significant changes to its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP), which it first offered in 2009. The IRS revised OVDP over the years, including introducing the...more
The IRS recently announced that it would end the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP). The OVDP is an amnesty program that tens of thousands of taxpayers have used since 2009 to report previously undisclosed foreign...more
The beleaguered law firm at the center of the international Panama Papers scandal – Mossack Fonseca – has announced that it is closing its doors. It offered no apologies....more
On Feb. 23, 2018, a couple of months after the first French DPA (“CJIP - convention judiciaire d’intérêt public”) in history was entered into between the French prosecutor office and HSBC Private Bank Suisse in relation to...more
The Justice Department announced a guilty plea by a subsidiary of Rabobank, a Dutch global bank, to a conspiracy to violate money laundering laws and obstruct a regulatory investigation of Rabobank’s activities in California....more
On February 7, 2018, Dutch bank Rabobank’s U.S. subsidiary pleaded guilty to conspiring to impair, impede, and obstruct a review by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) of the bank’s anti-money laundering...more
Equifax CEO Richard F. Smith is out as the fallout continues from the massive cyberbreach of the consumer credit reporting agency that exposed the personal information of as many as 143 million people....more
As widely reported, the Spanish police raided last year the Madrid offices of the Chinese state-run Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”), the world’s biggest bank by assets. In the nearly 18 months following that...more
On July 26, FinCEN, in coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (“NDCA USAO”), assessed a $110,003,314 civil money penalty against BTC-e a/k/a Canton Business Corporation (“BTC-e”)...more
On July 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an important decision regarding the role of federal courts in cases resolved through deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) — a settlement avenue that the...more
In the wake of the "Panama Papers" – the unprecedented leak of 11.5 million files from a Panamanian law firm that revealed thousands of names and addresses linked to offshore companies – the White House has announced several...more