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Sittenfeld v. United States – Campaign Contributions as Crimes?
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Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 12, 2025
RICO Section 1962(b): Acquisition or Maintenance of Control Over Legitimate Enterprises — RICO Report Podcast
Podcast - The Seeds of Corruption
False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement
Episode 374 -- Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance
Daily Compliance News: June 16, 2025, The Golden Share Edition
The JustPod: Defending the "Evil Genius:" A Conversation with Leonard Ambrose
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 62 - The Tragic Toll of Conspiracy Theories: The Seth Rich Story
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Podcast - "Ready for Trial?"
Podcast - The Law as a Force for Change
The JustPod: A Discussion with Defense Counsel Rocco Cipparone and Angie Levy on January 6 Prosecutions
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
The JustPod: A murder-for-hire allegation, public corruption trial, and notable acquittal
The Israel Competition Authority (ICA) conducted a thorough investigation of the S. Schestowitz Group, an Israeli company in the food and consumer goods sector, due to suspicions the company operated a cartel in the food...more
Companies face a dual challenge — the pressing need to unravel their supply chains, and the immediate task of recalibrating due diligence systems to examine potential presence of cartel and transnational criminal...more
DOJ issues updated guidelines, ending temporary “pause” on FCPA enforcement and focusing potential enforcement on priority areas. On June 9, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum (the Guidelines)...more
DOJ’s new approach to FCPA enforcement presents some interesting opportunities — the headlines from the DOJ FCPA Guidance Memo will bring some significant changes but at the same time some things will not change. Here is my...more
On June 9, 2025, Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice, published guidelines for investigations and prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). These guidelines...more
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum on June 9 (the Memo), announcing DOJ will resume enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) after its brief hiatus....more
On June 9, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum entitled “Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA),” which establishes guidelines to ensure that FCPA...more
On February 20, 2025, the United States designated eight cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). Since then, the US...more
State attorneys general (AGs) have recently signaled a more aggressive stance toward their own criminal antitrust enforcement. If they realize their ambitions, this could presage a notable shift in the US enforcement...more
The designations expand US tools and jurisdictional reach, and raise the stakes for foreign financial institutions and non-US companies to avoid dealing with designated entities....more
U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi on her first day in office – Feb. 5, 2025 – sent several memos to all employees of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) laying out top priorities. In one memo, the DOJ instructs its...more
Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi has issued a directive that both: (1) effectively shifts the DOJ’s FCPA enforcement focus towards those cases related to foreign bribery involving cartels and transnational criminal...more
What will antitrust enforcement look like under a second Trump presidency? While much remains uncertain, particularly regarding key appointments to the enforcement agencies, historical trends and policy priorities offer...more
Competition enforcers throughout the Americas focus their efforts to investigate and prosecute antitrust cartels: agreements between competitors to fix prices, rig bids, or allocate markets....more
Demonstrating both increased cross-border collaboration and the adoption of novel theories of cartel violations, the European Commission and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, together with the U.S. competition...more
The Antitrust Division’s Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter promised a new era in antitrust enforcement. He won bi-partisan support from both Republicans and Democrats. Across the antitrust field, he promised...more