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DOJ Antitrust Unit Launches Whistleblower Rewards Program

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The U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ) has announced a new initiative aimed at enhancing the detection and prosecution of antitrust violations. ...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Updated: Trump Administration Clarifies Criminal Enforcement Priorities

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On May 9, 2025, the White House issued an executive order, titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations,” that could have a significant impact on the administration’s enforcement of criminal regulatory...more

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DOJ Resumes FCPA Enforcement Under New Guidelines Prioritizing the Protection of American Interests

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In response to President Trump's February 10, 2025, Executive Order pausing DOJ FCPA enforcement (the "Executive Order"), on June 9, 2025, the DOJ issued new guidelines (the "Guidelines"), which prioritize the enforcement of...more

A&O Shearman

Supreme Court Decision Endorses Fraudulent-Inducement Theory Under Federal Wire Fraud Statute, Resolving Circuit Split And...

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On May 22, 2025, in a significant decision that clarifies the scope of the federal wire fraud statute and resolves a circuit split, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a pair of wire fraud convictions that had been premised on a...more

The Volkov Law Group

Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance (Part I of II)

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The Justice Department has returned to the FCPA enforcement arena — in a significant development, DOJ announced the resumption of FCPA enforcement, with a new set of enforcement guidance principles.  The new guidance is an...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

DOJ Releases Promised Guidelines for Investigation and Enforcement Under the FCPA

On Monday June 9, 2025, the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche released “Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” This much anticipated update directly responds to Executive Order...more

Perkins Coie

Supreme Court Upholds Fraudulent Inducement Theory of Wire Fraud

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On May 22, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed prosecutors’ ability to pursue mail and wire fraud charges under the “fraudulent inducement” theory. Under that theory, a defendant need not intend to cause...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Mind Over Matter: Executive Order Seeks to Reframe Regulatory Criminal Enforcement

On May 9, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” (the Order), which directs federal agencies to reassess how and when criminal penalties are applied to...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

New Executive Order Takes Aim at the Regulatory State

On May 9, President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14294, “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.” The EO is a continuation of President Trump’s larger effort to address the “overregulation” problem that has...more

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Executive Order on Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations

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On May 9, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (EO) titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” to address criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses, particularly strict liability offenses where the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

The Trump Administration Takes Aim at Regulatory Overcriminalization

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On May 9, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.” The Order takes aim at what the President calls “regulatory crimes,” with the intended purpose...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Trump Administration Clarifies Criminal Enforcement Priorities

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On May 9, 2025, the White House issued an executive order, titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations,” that could have a significant impact on the administration’s enforcement of criminal regulatory...more

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White House Issues Executive Order Limiting Criminal Enforcement of Regulatory Offenses

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On May 9, 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order, “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations,” that seeks to place limits on the criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses, particularly those that impose...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Core False Claims Act Theories Top the List of DOJ Criminal Enforcement Priorities

The May 12, 2025, memo from the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Criminal Division highlights 10 “high-impact” areas as the focus of DOJ’s criminal enforcement efforts. (See our May 14, 2025, client alert “In a New...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Curbing Regulatory Crimes: Latest Executive Order Warrants Close Attention by Corporate Legal and Compliance Teams

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On May 9, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a new Executive Order titled Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations, marking a significant policy shift in how federal agencies and the Department of Justice (DOJ)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The European Response to DOJ’s FCPA Enforcement “Pause”

On March 20, 2025, the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland jointly announced the formation of a new International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce (the “Task Force”) aimed at strengthening cross-border collaboration...more

The Volkov Law Group

Voluntary Self-Disclosure Shields Universities Space Research Association from Prosecution by DOJ

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On April 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division (“NSD”) issued a formal declination of prosecution to the Universities Space Research Association (“USRA”) following the organization’s timely and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens (Trump EO Tracker)

Orders the Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

DOJ’s Aggressive Efforts to Investigate a Federal Government Contractor

On February 18, 2025, Denise Cheung, leader of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, abruptly resigned. Prior to her resignation, Cheung had been at the Department of Justice (DOJ)...more

Cozen O'Connor

New York Note: Update on Mayor Adams

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Last Monday, the Justice Department directed federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to dismiss the pending charges against Mayor Adams without prejudice and restore his security clearance. Mayor Adams...more

McCarter & English, LLP

DOJ Returns to Charging the “Most Serious, Readily Provable Offenses” and Shifts Resources to Immigration Enforcement

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued a three-page memorandum from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to the entire DOJ workforce directing federal prosecutors to return to previous DOJ charging guidelines,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] 2022 Enforcement Outlook Series - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act/Anti-Corruption - March 8th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

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As expected when a new administration takes office, 2021 saw a surge in white-collar enforcement activity. There was a 12% increase in white-collar prosecutions during US President Joe Biden’s first year in office, and that...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

MITRE: Risk Approach May Thwart Foreign Threats, Better Federal Info, Support Essential

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 2 (February 2021) - “I don’t want to be on the front page of the paper with my best researcher being dragged off in handcuffs. It doesn’t look good for our university,” a senior...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Obedient Companies Rewarded in New DOJ Policy Discouraging Duplicative Penalties

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• Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has announced a new U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy to discourage government agencies from "piling on" duplicative corporate penalties. • Rosenstein signaled a desire for...more

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