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Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Group reviews several Department of Justice statements that together signal how it will enforce illicit finance risks in decentralized finance (DeFi), focusing on...more
Anti-counterfeiting enforcement in the United States stems largely from two federal statutes: the Lanham Act (codified at 15 USC Section 1051) and the Trademark Counterfeiting Act 1984 (codified at 18 USC Section 2320). The...more
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
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
In a lawsuit filed by not-for-profit corporations serving Latino immigrants against the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and IRS, court filings have revealed that the IRS and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), acting...more
At the American Bar Association’s White-Collar Crime Institute’s conference held in Miami, Florida on March 6-7, 2025, two panelists from the panel “Sentencing: Effective Mitigation in White-Collar Cases” differed on whether...more
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
On 28 February 2025, the Hong Kong Competition Commission (“HKCC”) welcomed the first criminal conviction against an individual for disposing of and concealing documents required to be produced under the HKCC’s investigation...more
The January 30, 2025 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Providing Interstate Telehealth Abortion Services to Patients in Restrictive States.” In the second sentence, the authors write:...more
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
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
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
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
On 14 April three individuals and three companies were sentenced for their role in a bribery scheme spanning nine years. The prosecution merits consideration because, as well as securing convictions for corruption and...more
The Biden administration has signaled its intention to recriminalize non-purposeful, or incidental, “takes” of birds under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”). The longstanding debate over the scope of criminal liability...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is carrying out its promise to prosecute illegal “no-poach” agreements between companies. Until last week, DOJ had brought only civil enforcement actions against companies that have allegedly...more
In this episode, we examine how two criminal defendants are aiming to leverage parallel FCPA investigations by the SEC and the DOJ to build their defense. We’ll also offer our thoughts on the SEC’s new (and improved?)...more
This year, 2020, has been an enforcement year opening with billion-dollar settlements: first, Airbus settled FCPA charges for $4 billion, and now Wells Fargo for $3 billion. What a start to an enforcement year!...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a January 16th news release stating that a Washington, D.C. individual had been sentenced in the United States District Court for allegedly violating the Toxic Substances...more
In the fourth quarter of 2019, U.S. enforcement authorities sustained efforts to prosecute individuals violating U.S. anticorruption laws in matters related to Latin America, while authorities in Latin America, including in...more
Recently, the Department of Justice indicted three precious metals traders in the Northern District of Illinois, charging each them with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (“RICO”), committing...more
The national opioid epidemic is almost unprecedented in every conceivable way—its catastrophic death toll, its broad effect on a wide swath of this country’s population, its rapid escalation (which is alleged to have been...more
How should we approach competing sanctions risks? Among the numerous regulatory compliance risks faced by financial institutions, economic and trade sanctions risks commonly receive a great deal of attention....more
• Recent Justice Manual changes roll back Yates memo requirements for corporations seeking cooperation credit in enforcement actions, including civil enforcement actions. • Corporations can now receive maximum cooperation...more
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it is stepping back from its hard-line approach to corporate cooperation credit in which a corporation was not eligible for credit unless it disclosed all relevant facts about...more