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On February 5, U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi issued 14 memoranda to Department of Justice (DOJ) employees framing the DOJ's current policies and enforcement priorities. These shifting enforcement priorities are aligned...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced plans to offer financial incentives to whistleblowers who report allegations of wrongdoing. It’s an effort to fill gaps left open by existing whistleblower and bounty...more
On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new 90-day pilot program at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to incentivize whistleblowers. The program is inspired by and generally follows similar programs...more
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has been very active in the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) / Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) space, as reflected by a recent series of individual prosecutions and corporate non-prosecution agreements...more
Within the trade bar there is cautiousness, curiosity and skepticism at the numerous pronouncements signaling greater enforcement of export controls and sanctions by the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Office of Foreign...more
On November 22, 2023, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), in close coordination with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Criminal Investigation (“CI”), issued an alert (“Alert”) regarding the COVID-19...more
Voluntary self-disclosure is a valuable remediation measure for companies who identify their own potential violations of U.S. sanctions, export controls, and other national security laws....more
Regulatory scrutiny of the use and management of cryptocurrency and other digital assets such as utility tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) (collectively, cryptoassets) is rapidly growing on both sides of the Atlantic....more
How effective is the current framework for filing Suspicious Activity Reports, or SARs? The AML Act mandates that federal law enforcement agencies provide statistics to assist Congress, regulators, and financial institutions...more
On October 3, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began reporting on millions of confidential documents relating to the financial activities of heads of state, international business leaders, and other...more
As required by the Anti-Money Laundering Act (“AML Act”), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued on June 30, 2021 its 14-page assessment regarding the feasibility of FinCEN issuing so-called “no-action”...more
What is the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR)? Congress enacted the statutory basis for the requirement to report foreign bank and financial accounts in 1970 as part of the “Currency and Foreign...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
Note to Government Personnel: Don’t Disclose SARs - This week, major developments unfolded in the cases against two former federal government employees for their respective roles in disclosing Suspicious Activity Reports...more
Organization Excels at Niche Branding but Stumbles in Avoiding Enforcement - The first paragraph of the press release sums it up: Today the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action...more
Virtual currency transactions are now a prime focus of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scrutiny. The IRS has numerous information-gathering tools to enforce its taxing power, including summons, artificial intelligence, data...more
FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco delivered prepared remarks on August 13 at the 12th Annual Las Vegas Anti-Money Laundering Conference. We previously have blogged repeatedly on the anti-money laundering (“AML”) and Bank...more
Director Blanco Stresses Importance of BSA Filings to Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions - As we have blogged, Kenneth Blanco, the Director of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), has publically and...more
This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including new U.K. reporting obligations for sanctions violations,...more
As the world now knows, an indictment against Paul Manafort, Jr., a former campaign chairperson for now-President Donald Trump, and Manafort’s associate, Richard Gates III, was unsealed yesterday. ...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 Wednesday, July 27, 2017, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a $110 million fine levied against BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, for BTC-e’s alleged refusal to abide by...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
The new FinCEN regulations requiring financial institutions to secure beneficial ownership information is fast approaching – May 2018. The US has been way behind in this regulatory area. As a result, money-laundering activity...more