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Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering Compliance – Lessons from The Hound of the Baskervilles
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons from Internal Control Failures
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls
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The Dark Patterns Behind Corporate Scandals
Great Women in Compliance: GWIC X EC Q2 2025 - Exploring Compliance Innovations
Upping Your Game: Crowd - Sourcing Risk Management Intelligence with AI
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 20, 2025, The Death of the Business Card Edition
In CCC v AAC [2025] HKCFI 2987, Sir William Blair, sitting as Deputy High Court Judge in the Hong Kong Court of First Instance (“Court”), rejected a borrower’s challenge to the enforcement of an arbitral award in favour of a...more
Fannie Mae recently announced updates to its Multifamily Loan Documents with Lender Letter (25-04). Since that time, Fannie Mae released a revised Lender Letter (25-04R) that changed the mandatory date for use of the loan...more
The “Sovereign Citizen Movement” is a term used to describe the growing number of individuals who deny the authority and / or legitimacy of the U.S. government. While the “SovCit” movement originated decades ago, there...more
On March 10, 2025, a Minnesota state court judge granted in part and denied in part a credit union’s motion for summary judgment—and granted the defendants’ motion for leave to assert counterclaims against the credit union—in...more
On March 27, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York largely denied a motion to dismiss fraudulent transfer and tortious interference claims arising out of a dispute over the financing and...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) recently announced that it is deprioritizing certain enforcement and supervision actions. The Bureau explained that it will instead focus its limited resources on what it...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued its annual report analyzing the consumer complaints it received in 2024. The CFPB collects complaints through its website, phone calls, and mail....more
On April 17, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that the state has filed a lawsuit against a wholesale mortgage lender, alleging that the company engaged in a statewide scheme to mislead borrowers and inflate mortgage...more
Under the government Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), small businesses struggling due to the pandemic could obtain a fully government-secured loan of up to £50,000 with no repayments required for the first 12 months....more
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act was a federal law enacted in or around March 2020 designed to provide emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who were suffering the...more
The vast majority of federal white-collar fraud enforcement actions are prosecuted under the wire, mail, or bank fraud statutes. 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, and 1344. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Thompson v. United...more
Last week a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Thompson v. United States, 2025 WL 876266 (2025), holding that a statement that is literally true but allegedly misleading, is not a “false statement” under 18...more
On March 21, 2025, the Supreme Court continued its push back on an expansive reading of the federal criminal laws involving fraud and corruption by overturning the false statement conviction of Patrick Daley Thompson. In a...more
Following a whistleblower complaint filed by Andrew Hersh in 2020, a Florida businessman, Patrick Walsh, and 10 companies he owned or operated entered into a civil settlement for over $20 million to resolve False Claims Act...more
Freddie Mac published last Thursday an update to the Freddie Mac Guide, which included a discussion of various underwriting, fraud detection and loan document changes. Here's what you need to know...more
In one of the first tests of the implications of the Jarkesy decision for other federal regulatory agencies, an individual accused by the FDIC of participating in fraudulent loan activity is asking a federal judge to dismiss...more
A recent study, Government Litigation Risk and the Decline in Low-Income Mortgage Lending, provides further evidence that the law of unintended consequences reigns supreme, particularly in the realm of public policy. The...more
On February 21, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit held that a debtor who receives several direct benefits from a loan to an operating company has received “reasonably equivalent value” in exchange...more
Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month, we examine: •The permanent suspension of an audit firm and its owner for...more
Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy discussed the enforcement priorities for the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) during a Q&A session on May 29, 2024, and made clear that the historical focus of the office remains...more
Trio Sentenced to Eight to 15 Years in Prison for Laundering Proceeds of Telephone Scam - Following a jury trial, three individuals were convicted of a money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to eight, 10, and 15 years...more
Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of March 25, 2024 – March 29, 2024....more
It is not often that we examine a case involving the doctrine of champerty. The last time we did so was on March 8, 2023 (here). We also examined the champerty doctrine in 2021 (here), 2020 (here), and 2016 (here)....more
The Long-Term Effects Felt by Lenders Nationwide. As a result of the United States government instituting the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), companies nationwide have defaulted on hundreds of thousands of PPP loans,...more
In Soaring Pine Capital Real Estate & Debt Fund II, LLC v. Park Street Group Realty Services, LLC, the Michigan Supreme Court considered whether a court may enforce a usury savings clause in a mortgage agreement. A usury...more