Episode 381 -- NAVEX's 2025 Annual Hotline Report
CSC Guidance Unveiled: NIL Enforcement and Implications for Collectives — Highway to NIL Podcast
Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
New Virginia "Workplace Violence" Definition and Healthcare Reporting Law: What's the Tea in L&E?
What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Employers - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Understanding the New Overtime Tax Policies in the Big Beautiful Bill
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
(Podcast) California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
Podcast - Navigating the Updated SF-328 Form
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Control Deficiencies
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Hospice Insights Podcast - Election Inspection: Be Proactive to Avoid Costly Election Statement Denials
Compliance into the Weeds: Autonomous AI Whistleblowing Misconduct
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Federal Tax Filing Deadlines and Penalties
(Podcast) California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Virginia and West Virginia
On July 8, 2025, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (“Antitrust Division”) announced that it is creating the Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program (the “Whistleblower Program”) in partnership with the U.S. Postal...more
On July 8, 2025, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the Division) announced a new program that could provide monetary payouts to individuals who report criminal antitrust violations. The program, described in a...more
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published a policy statement in the Federal Register outlining its approach to addressing criminally liable regulatory offenses. This publication comes in...more
Investing in the cannabis industry is not without its risks, given the evolving regulatory landscape and the varying state and federal statuses of the product itself. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has...more
On 8 May 2025, the United Kingdom’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) of HM Treasury published a penalty notice regarding a breach of financial sanctions by a UK registered company—Svarog Shipping & Trading...more
On April 17, 2025, three operating divisions (the “Operating Divisions”) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and the Division of Enforcement (“DOE”) provided guidance in CFTC Letter 25-13 (the...more
On March 28, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”)’s criminal investigative arm, IRS Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced that it would be implementing a new program called CI-FIRST (Feedback in Response to...more
The UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has published its annual report on suspicious activity reports (SARs) for the period between April 2023 and March 2024. The annual report structure has been updated due to a number...more
On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) specifically aimed at combatting Mexico-based cartels and other criminals along the southwest border of the United...more
On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) requiring all money services businesses (MSBs) operating within 30 specified ZIP codes near the U.S.-Mexico border...more
On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury threw a new twist into the ongoing Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) enforcement saga by announcing that it will not enforce any fines or penalties against any U.S. citizens or...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA) requires a range of entities, primarily smaller, unregulated companies, to file reports with FinCen, and arm of the Treasury Department, identifying the entities’ beneficial owners,...more
Stay tuned – another shoe is likely to drop from Washington D.C. on the CTA (“Corporate Transparency Act”) in the next three weeks. As we previously reported on February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
On February 27, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced it will “…not issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update...more
Newly Formed Entities Have 30 Days to File - On February 17, 2025, the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. United States Department of the Treasury lifted the last remaining nationwide preliminary injunction on...more
Filing requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) have been reinstated. Per FinCEN’s (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s) most recent Alert released on February 18, 2025, the new deadline for filing...more
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas stayed the nationwide injunction it previously issued in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (Smith case)....more
On February 18, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. US Department of the Treasury, No. 6:24-cv-336-JDK, entered an order staying (pausing) the nationwide preliminary injunction against...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has stayed the last remaining nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury....more
On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to stay a nationwide injunction that was issued by a Texas federal judge in the case Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. McHenry. As we discussed previously,...more
On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay of the nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (31 U.S.C. § 5336) and the Beneficial Ownership...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a nationwide preliminary injunction issued in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland et al., creating further legal uncertainty surrounding the Corporate Transparency Act...more
The recent whiplash regarding the validity of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)—it was enjoined just to particular parties, then enjoined nationwide, then un-enjoined, then enjoined again, while other courts let it...more
On December 27, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced a notice of assessment of a civil money penalty against a Kansas-based bank. The action, originally brought in November, imposed a $20.4 million...more