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Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
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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
Podcast - Every Case Is a New World
On May 12, 2025, the United States Department of Justice’s Criminal Division published a series of memoranda outlining updated white-collar enforcement priorities. ...more
On September 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco delivered remarks on the Department of Justice’s corporate prosecution priorities at New York University, at the invitation of the University’s Project on...more
In prepared remarks delivered at New York University School of Law on Sept. 15, Deputy AG Monaco announced significant updates to the DOJ’s corporate criminal enforcement policies. Deputy AG Monaco’s announcement...more
On September 15, 2022, the Department of Justice (Department) released a memorandum revising several key aspects of its corporate criminal enforcement policies. The new policy, titled Further Revisions to Corporate Criminal...more
Discussion with two former senior prosecutors on how to handle cases involving Japanese multinational corporations - It is not unusual for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate non-U.S. multinational corporations...more
The largest criminal monitorship in U.S. history has ended. On March 22, 2022 a U.S. judge ruled that Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corporation had completed the terms of its five-year probation, which began in 2017...more
In her Oct. 28, 2021 keynote address at the American Bar Association’s 36th National Institute on White Collar Crime, new Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced several policy changes to the Department of...more
The priorities will impact non-US companies who may face a US DOJ with a renewed emphasis on combating corporate crime. In a recent speech that has garnered significant attention, the Deputy Attorney General of the...more
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) in certain circumstances requires the appointment of a corporate monitor in connection with corporate criminal resolutions. Historically, women and lawyers of color have been underrepresented...more
On December 6, 2019, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or the Company), resolved long-running investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the...more
Last week the Justice Department (DOJ) announced a resolution of the long stand Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson), a multinational networking and...more
The Sweden-based telecommunications company, Ericsson, agreed to a pay a total of $1 billion (yes, billion with a “B”) for FCPA violations. Ericsson entered into settlement agreements with DOJ and the SEC. Ericsson agreed to...more
Sometimes what folks label a “new idea” is not so much of a new idea as the application of an old solution to a new discipline. I do not mean to be cryptic, but I am going to explain my point by referring to an area where I...more
On April 30, 2019, the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division (“DOJ”), released an updated version of its guidance on “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (“Compliance Program Guidance”). This...more
On March 6, 2019, Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) consented to pay an $850 million sanction—the largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) criminal penalty ever paid to the United States—and to a three-year monitorship to...more
In a stunning resolution to one of the longest running bribery, corruption and money-laundering sagas on the international stage, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) both announced...more
Here we go – another year, another set of predictions. Who knows whether they will come true? Actually, I went back and read my annual prediction posting for 2018 and 2017, respectively. Some things I called correctly, and...more
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - DOJ Files Superseding Indictment in Haitian Port Corruption Plot - On October 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a superseding indictment in the District of Massachusetts...more
• Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski's recent Memorandum on "Selection of Monitors in Criminal Division Matters" provides new direction to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors regarding when to require...more
• Four years ago, Brazilian authorities began Operation Car Wash, a wide-ranging and still ongoing corruption and money laundering investigation that has spanned 11 countries. • The fallout continues with a recent U.S....more
There are two distinct themes in FCPA enforcement – the first is consistency, i.e., that some enforcement actions are relatively consistent across the board and, in the last five to ten years, the FCPA caseload has been...more