Understanding the DOJ's Recent Corporate Enforcement Policy Changes
Episode 369 -- Stepping Into the Enforcement Spotlight -- Customs and Border Patrol and Import Enforcement
Understanding the Latest DOJ Changes to Corporate Prosecutions
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Self-Disclosure, Cooperation, and the Hazards of Knowing Too Little
5 Key Takeaways | 2024 Emerging Trends: Delaware Unclaimed Property VDA and Multistate Audits
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 44 - A Recipe for Litigation: The Simmering Conflict Surrounding ERC Claims
DOJ’s New Self-Disclosure Policy and Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
FCPA Survival Guide: Step 1 - Self-Disclosure
Episode 316 -- DOJ Announces New Whistleblower Policy
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: DOJ’s Shifting Approach to Recidivism and Self-Disclosure
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 28 - Under the Microscope: Examining the Future of the ERC
Episode 289 -- Justice, Commerce and Treasury Issue Joint Notice on Voluntary Disclosure
What DAG Lisa Monaco's Speech Means for Compliance Programs
Torres Talks Trade Podcast- Episode 13- When Government Agencies Come Knocking
Torres Talks Trade Episode 11 on Sanctions and Export Enforcement Cases by DOJ
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The DOJ Wants You! - Part II: Voluntary Disclosures
Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part I – State & Local Tax (SALT) Compliance During COVID-19: What to Do When You’re Behind
Anti-corruption & international risk developments
Podcast - Risk Management: Impact of Revised FCPA Policy on International Risk Management Programs
Podcast - Risk Management: Revised FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy
In Part One of this series, we discussed the May 12, 2025, U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s new guidance memo on white-collar enforcement priorities in the Trump 2.0 Administration entitled “Focus, Fairness, and...more
DOJ’s new Corporate Enforcement Program is designed to bring certainty to the voluntary disclosure and cooperation process. DOJ’s intent is clear — voluntary disclosure is likely to lead to a declination, reduced penalties...more
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
The Dutch Public Prosecution Office ("DPPO") has introduced a new policy (aanwijzing), effective 1 January 2025, outlining conditions and fine reductions for self-disclosure, cooperation and self-investigation in corporate...more
The DOJ’s much-anticipated corporate whistleblower program is here, making multimillion-dollar financial awards available to eligible individuals who report corporate misconduct. There’s lots in it to digest, and our White...more
In today’s regulatory environment, corporations have a heightened obligation to investigate potential wrongdoing by their employees and to monitor, and possibly disclose, incidents of illegal conduct....more
Just over a month after Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the upcoming launch of the Department of Justice’s whistleblower rewards program, the DOJ Criminal Division unveiled its newest program to incentivize...more
On April 15, 2024, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the launch of its Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosures for Individuals. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, The Criminal Division’s Pilot...more
There were recently two significant speeches by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials at the American Bar Association National Institute on White Collar Crime. The first was by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. The second...more
Telling on yourself is not an intuitive defense. But federal regulators and prosecutors at last week’s ABA National Institute on White Collar Crime urged companies and executives to consider doing so or risk being beat to the...more
On January 10, 2024, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced the Whistleblower Pilot Program (Program) for the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to encourage self-reporting and...more
The Justice Department certainly has altered the landscape of enforcement, compliance priorities, and ultimately corporate decisions surrounding voluntary disclosure. It has become a little bit more complicated to sort out...more
On February 22, 2023, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released a new voluntary self-disclosure (“VSD”) policy (available here) that applies to all United States Attorney’s Offices (“USAO”). The policy details the...more
On February 22, 2023, the Department of Justice announced a new Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (the Disclosure Policy) that now governs corporate prosecutions by US Attorney’s Offices (USAOs) nationwide. Building on a 2022...more
On September 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General (“DAG”) Lisa Monaco delivered remarks announcing updated guidance on how the Department of Justice will be prioritizing and prosecuting corporate crime. Her remarks were...more
Last month in a speech at Georgetown University Law Center, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., announced revisions to the Department of Justice’s Corporate Enforcement Policy, to apply to all corporate...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), through Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr., announced on Jan. 17, 2023, "the first significant changes" to its Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) since 2017. The revisions...more
Updated DOJ policies will continue to focus on individual accountability and corporate recidivism, while aiming to provide additional incentives for voluntary self-reporting, foster greater transparency on use of monitors,...more
The week of September 12 was an important one for corporate compliance professionals. We saw two high-ranking officials at the U.S. Justice Department give back-to-back speeches outlining ambitious plans to transform the...more
On September 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco laid out the DOJ’s first substantive changes to white-collar criminal investigations and enforcement under the Biden administration....more
On September 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced new guidance and policies regulating corporate criminal enforcement. The new policies emphasize that DOJ will not...more
The Department of Justice recently announced updates to its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corporate Enforcement Policy. While the changes were relatively minor, the modifications underscored important principles surrounding...more
On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was issuing a new enforcement policy covering its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The...more