Criminal Prosecution, Good Faith

The White Collar Appeal: Seventh Circuit Holds Spoofing is Fraud

Quinn Emanuel on 8/28/2025

“Spoofing,” or the practice of submitting buy or sell orders to trading platforms with the intent to withdraw them prior to execution, is considered fraud under the Seventh Circuit’s decision in United States v. Smith, issued...more

What is the IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program?

Allen Barron, Inc. on 2/21/2024

What is the IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program and who is it designed to help? What are the guidelines for voluntary disclosure to the IRS and who is eligible to apply? The IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure...more

DOJ Clarifies Policy for Prosecutions Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti,... on 6/17/2022

Takeaway: The DOJ’s recent revisions to their internal policy promote the Department’s goals that the CFAA is applied consistently by government attorneys and better understood by the public. These goals ensure that the law...more

Supreme Court To Hear Argument Addressing Doctors’ Good Faith Defense To Pill Mill Prosecutions

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 2/23/2022

The Supreme Court will hear argument next week in two consolidated cases that will decide what standard applies when a doctor asserts a good faith defense to a criminal prosecution for unlawful drug distribution. ...more

Jury Acquits Former Pharma Exec in One of the First Post-Yates Memo Health Care Fraud Prosecutions

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 6/28/2016

Like many before it, this year has been one to watch in government health care fraud enforcement efforts. In September 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the “Yates Memo,” which reaffirmed the government’s...more

The Yates Memo: A New DOJ Investigative Focus

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/17/2015

Since at least the market crisis there has been a clamor to charge and convict senior corporate officials – or at least name them in a civil law enforcement action by the SEC or another agency. For years the Government...more

Creative Lawyering In RCRA Criminal Action Fails to Find Favor with the Ninth Circuit

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/13/2015

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the federal law that regulates management of hazardous waste, is complicated and compliance can be tricky... but not impossible. Our experience is that good faith efforts to comply...more

To Be a Criminal, You Have to Act Like a Criminal

The Volkov Law Group on 4/14/2014

Lawyers, compliance professionals and senior management at companies can be obsessive when it comes to the threat of criminal liability. Please do not get me wrong, I am not minimizing the risk of criminal prosecution, nor I...more

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