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DOJ Unveils New Plan for White-Collar Crime and Corporate Enforcement

McDermott Will & Schulte on 5/15/2025

The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) current approach to corporate criminal enforcement has come into focus with the issuance of a new White-Collar Enforcement Plan and several revised policy documents. The changes, which...more

French client-attorney privilege: threats on the horizon?

A&O Shearman on 4/24/2025

On March 11, the Criminal Chamber of the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) handed down four rulings that drastically narrow the scope of French legal privilege. Under French law, when a dawn raid is carried out in a...more

DOJ Issues New FCPA Declination: Boston Consulting Group Pays $14.4 Million

The Volkov Law Group on 9/4/2024

The Justice Department is encouraging companies to voluntarily disclose criminal violations — “Come in and confess” and DOJ offers promises of a declination. But even a declination comes with a requirement — the company has...more

Raids by Asia-Pacific Enforcers Are on the Rise: A Guide to Being Prepared for When the Enforcer Comes Knocking

Jones Day on 6/7/2024

The Development: After an interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities across the Asia-Pacific region have fully revived dawn raids....more

DOJ Targets Cryptocurrency Fraud

BakerHostetler on 10/13/2021

On October 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the creation of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (“NCET” or “Team”) to tackle investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of...more

Law Brief®: The Theranos Trial

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 9/23/2021

On the latest Law Brief® episode, Co-Heads of the White Collar Practice Group, Michael Grudberg and Robert Heim, join Host, Richard Schoenstein to discuss the on-going trial of Elizabeth Holmes concerning her now-defunct...more

Founder and Operator of Bitcoin “Mixer” Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 9/3/2021

Larry Dean Harmon, the founder and operator of Helix, a darknet-based cryptocurrency “mixer” or “tumbler,” recently admitted that Helix partnered with darknet marketplaces to provide bitcoin money laundering services for...more

“Complexity will not hide crime from law enforcement,” California U.S. Attorney on Brockman Indictment

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 11/3/2020

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) 39 count indictment charging Robert T. Brockman, with tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and other offenses, demonstrates that the DOJ is committed to the investigation and...more

DOJ and Multi-Agency Task Force Charge International Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking, and Illegal Wildlife Trade Scheme

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/11/2020

“Front” Seafood Businesses Allegedly Hid the Proceeds From Smuggled Shark Fins and Marijuana Distribution - Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia unsealed an indictment returned in July,...more

DOJ Criminal Generic Pharma Price-Fixing Investigation Gathers Steam: Taro Pharmaceuticals Agrees to Pay DOJ Total of $419 Million

The Volkov Law Group on 7/29/2020

The DOJ Antitrust Division’s multi-year criminal cartel investigation of the generic pharmaceutical industry is gaining steam. The latest company to settle is Taro Pharmaceuticals which agreed to enter a deferred prosecution...more

Financial Daily Dose 2.24.2020 | Top Story: Wells Fargo to Pay $3 Billion to Resolve DOJ and SEC Investigations

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/24/2020

Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay a total of $3 billion to resolve criminal and civil investigations by the DOJ and SEC. Wells Fargo admitted “that it took millions in wrongful fees and interest, misused customer information...more

FCPA 2019: A Record Year in Enforcement and Compliance (Part I of III)

The Volkov Law Group on 1/7/2020

Happy New Year!! In the FCPA arena, 2019 was a record year – in enforcement and compliance. Many continuing trends are becoming more than trends – meaning they are turning into established practices....more

Top Five Department of Justice FCPA Enforcement Actions in 2019

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 1/2/2020

Welcome to the 2020’s. The past decade helped shape both Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement and corporate compliance programs. 2019 FCPA enforcements bore out many of the developments from the preceding years of...more

Ex-Braskem CEO Indicted on FCPA, AML and Books and Records Charges

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 11/21/2019

Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced three charges against Jose Carlos Grubisich, the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Braskem S.A. (Braskem), a publicly traded Brazilian petrochemical company, for his...more

The United States' Danske Bank Investigation – This is Something Different

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/30/2018

Earlier this month, Danske Bank A/S – Denmark's largest bank – announced that the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") has initiated a criminal investigation relating to the bank's Estonian branch....more

“Panama Papers” Law Firm Announces Its Closure Due to Fallout from Massive Data Breach

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/16/2018

The beleaguered law firm at the center of the international Panama Papers scandal – Mossack Fonseca – has announced that it is closing its doors. It offered no apologies....more

High-Profile Spanish Money Laundering Investigation of Chinese Bank Raises Questions About Future of Similar U.S. Enforcement

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/7/2017

As widely reported, the Spanish police raided last year the Madrid offices of the Chinese state-run Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”), the world’s biggest bank by assets. In the nearly 18 months following that...more

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