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The Trump Administration is aggressively pursuing export controls and sanctions enforcement. In two separate cases, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry...more
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) has been relatively quiet on the enforcement front. That is not unusual — every transition results in an enforcement hiatus. Sanctions enforcement is a...more
U.S. Financial Services Firms Announce Digital Asset Initiatives - A major U.S. financial services company and operator of global financial exchanges and clearinghouses recently announced an agreement with the issuer of the...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
This is the final in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Throughout 2024, enforcement of international trade laws continued to gather pace...more
On Monday, February 24, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (the “SDNY”), in conjunction with the FBI, announced that a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange (“the Exchange”) pled guilty...more
On March 2, the Treasury announced it will suspend enforcement of fines or penalties indefinitely for beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting. This suspension of enforcement will be for U.S. domestic reporting...more
The Situation: After President Trump issued an Executive Order ("EO") that creates a process to designate international cartels and other organizations as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" ("FTOs") or "Specially Designated...more
We previously reported that on December 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Fifth Circuit motion panel’s stay of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) of the temporary injunction granted by...more
On February 17, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) in Smith, et. al. v. US Department of the Treasury, et. al., entered an order staying the nationwide injunction on enforcement of the...more
The crypto tax space saw significant developments in 2024. As 2025 ushers in new regulatory shifts (as our colleagues discussed here), tax changes may be on the horizon. In anticipation, this review revisits crypto tax...more
Recently, the U.S. SDNY left in place a temporary restraining order that was imposed on DOGE from accessing Treasury payment systems. As previously covered by InfoBytes, the U.S. SDNY blocked DOGE temporarily from accessing...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its reporting requirements are back in effect. This afternoon, a federal district court in Texas granted the U.S. government’s motion to stay (i.e., pause) the nationwide CTA...more
Recently, both Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell reportedly discussed DOGE’s access to Treasury payment systems. On February 7, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated in an interview that DOGE’s operational review aims to...more
While the United States Supreme Court recently lifted one nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Incorporated et al. v. McHenry (formerly Garland),...more
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more
On Jan. 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court reinstated a stay on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Dec. 26, 2024, decision, which had upheld a lower court’s nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate...more
In 2017, when President Trump first took office, big changes were expected in FCPA enforcement. Much of this reflected President Trump’s expressed misgivings on the substance of the FCPA. He was not a big fan of the law and...more
Yes, indeed! What Brad Garlinghouse of Ripple Labs called “Gensler’s reign of terror” ended with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler’s resignation upon President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Paul...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to stay the nationwide injunction that had previously banned enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its key...more
In a closely watched and complicated case, Van Loon et al. v. Dep’t of the Treasury et al., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) cannot sanction Tornado...more
While the incoming administration has blanketed the news cycle with newly threatened tariffs against typical targets like China, and against neighboring allies like Canada and Mexico, the current administration has quietly...more
October was a robust month for compliance with agency actions and guidance concerning anti-boycott, forced labor, section 301 exclusions, outbound investment, and sanctions. The International Trade Commission also voted...more
Payments Firms Launch Crypto Products, New Crypto Adoption Data Published - According to a recent press release, a well-known U.S. payments and financial technology company announced that it will allow its United States...more