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U.S. Justice Department Renews Enforcement Focus on Health Care Fraud

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In recent weeks, the Justice Department has issued new charging guidelines and announced enforcement actions that reflect the priorities of the current administration. Targeting perceived health care fraud, particularly...more

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CFTC Enforcement Division Issues Framework for DOJ Criminal Referrals

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On July 9, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Division of Enforcement (DOE), acting pursuant to a recent executive order (EO), issued an advisory letter outlining its new policy for referring criminally...more

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[Webinar] Compliance Priorities for In-House Counsel: Responding to Latest DOJ Priorities & Guidance - August 5th, 3:00 pm - 4:00...

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Join us for an informative webinar providing the latest updates on key compliance issues under the current administration. Our panel will address recent developments in tariffs, the FCPA, False Claims Act, and sanctions....more

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CFPB Provides Guidance on Referrals for Potential Criminal Enforcement

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The CFPB has issued a policy statement describing its plan to address criminally liable regulatory offenses. President Donald Trump previously issued an executive order on May 9, 2025, requiring each federal agency to publish...more

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Criminal Convictions After OSHA Inspection: What Employers Must Know to Avoid Jail Time

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A federal court of appeals just upheld the convictions of two workplace managers after an OSHA inspection quickly evolved into a criminal prosecution. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit offered a stark warning to...more

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Criminal Liability and Tariff and Trade Enforcement

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Tariff and trade violations are on DOJ’s radar screen.  No question but starting with Customs and Border Patrol we can expect that regulatory investigations and enforcement actions will increase.  Along with that — you can...more

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Trump Administration Efforts to Eliminate Cartels Pose Heightened Risk for Financial Institutions

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As discussed in Bracewell’s February 11 and February 26 updates, the executive branch is prioritizing the “total elimination” of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, both through edicts from the Oval Office and...more

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Should You Consider a Voluntary Self-Disclosure for a Tariff Violation?

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Tariff evasion techniques such as transshipping goods through third countries, underreporting the value of goods, and mislabeling goods as other items subject to lower tariff rates have resulted in hundreds of billions of...more

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DOJ Enforcing Criminal Penalties When Employers Fail to Comply

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a memo indicating a significant policy shift to prioritize immigration enforcement and expand the use of criminal statutes to address illegal immigration. The DOJ will support the...more

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Lessons from Hospital Criminal Prosecution for Larger Health Systems and Provider Groups

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On January 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a federal grand jury indicted the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Virginia for conspiracy to defraud the United States and health care...more

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Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism (Trump EO Tracker)

Summary - Combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence....more

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Top Regulators Speak at the New York City Bar Association’s Compliance Institute

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In response to compliance officer personal liability concerns and increasing SEC regulations, Commissioner Peirce proposed the creation of a compliance advisory committee, which would bring together SEC regulators and...more

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The Coming Corporate Sanctions Enforcement Storm (Part I of II)

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.  Willa Cather I know I sound like a broken record.  The Justice Department’s white collar criminal enforcement  has been trending down over the last few...more

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DOJ Seeks to Dismiss Its Last Pending No-Poach Criminal Action

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As we discussed earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) in recent years has brought numerous criminal prosecutions against companies accused of engaging in so-called “naked” no-poach agreements, i.e.,...more

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DOJ Announces Launch of Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Environmental Crimes Task Force

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On May 11, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of its Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Environmental Crimes Task Force. This new task force will focus specifically on combating...more

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Can Non-Compete Agreements Lead to Jail Time?

Can non-compete agreements lead to criminal fines—or even jail time? Yes, they can. That is because violating the Sherman Antitrust Act can result in criminal charges, not just civil liability....more

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CEP Magazine - March 2023. Don't be lulled

There appears to be a bit of a lull in corporate prosecutions lately. The big banner cases tend to involve crypto firms rather than household names. There are a few significant settlements, such as in opioid cases, but we...more

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MSO Investigations: When Are Physician-Owners at Risk?

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently taken a renewed interest in management services organizations (MSOs), including physician-syndicated MSOs in which physician-owners provide medical services in exchange for...more

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Competition authorities crackdown on employment markets: a new era for cartels

At the end of last year, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a guilty plea for wage fixing, resulting in its first criminal conviction with Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter saying: “[t]oday’s guilty plea...more

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WhatsApp Messages May Be Gone But Never Forgotten – At Least Not By the DOJ: Your Company’s 6-Step Action Plan

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When your employees go “off-grid” and use unauthorized third-party messaging applications that fall beyond typical email and texting – like the self-destructing WhatsApp messages – they put you at increasing risk of scrutiny...more

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What’s Next for Health Care Antitrust in 2023?

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In 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order directing antitrust enforcers to make sure that health care would be an area of emphasis for antitrust enforcement, and in 2022 they did. Federal regulators brought several...more

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Justice Department Memo Raises the Stakes for Workplace Safety–Related Investigations

On September 9, 2015, then U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates issued a memo, “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing,” that sent shivers down the spines of those in the workplace safety community....more

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Uber’s Former Chief Security Officer Found Guilty of Obstruction for Coverup of Data Breaches

On October 5, 2022, after a monthlong jury trial, former Uber Chief Information Security Officer Joseph Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and misprision of a felony...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] The 7 Elements Made Easy: Translating Compliance Speak for New Professionals - November 16th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CST

Learning objectives: - Define the overarching purpose of Compliance Programs - From a practical perspective in detecting, correcting, and preventing wrongdoing, and; - From the perspective of increasing the chances...more

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DOJ Strengthens Efforts to Combat Corporate Crime with Increased Focus on Individual Culpability and Self-Disclosure

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As a product of the Department of Justice’s newly minted Corporate Crime Advisory Group, the DOJ has issued follow-up guidance to its October 2021 memo on corporate criminal enforcement, which reinstated prior guidance...more

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