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Wiley Rein LLP

[Podcast] Signed, Sealed, Prosecuted: The UK Post Office Scandal

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Join hosts Tatiana Sainati and Diana Shaw as they unravel one of the most shocking corruption scandals in modern British history – the UK Post Office Horizon debacle. From a centuries-old institution to a catastrophic IT...more

Carlton Fields

Shifting Priorities in White Collar Enforcement: May 2025 DOJ Memo and What It Means for Companies

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On May 12, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division announced significant changes in its policies on investigating and prosecuting white collar crime, including a shift in focus toward several areas deemed to...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

DOJ's New White-Collar Enforcement Plan Signals Strategic Shift in Corporate Investigations

This week the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its new approach to corporate criminal enforcement, "Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against White Collar Crime."...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

DOJ’s Criminal Division Announces Updates to White-Collar Enforcement and Corporate Policies

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On May 12, 2025, the Head of the Criminal Division (the Criminal Division or Division) at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Matthew R. Galeotti, issued key memoranda to Criminal Division personnel on the Division’s new...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

White Collar Enforcement Priorities and Challenges: Discussions from “Views at the Top”

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On December 11, 2024, the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA) hosted “Views from the Top,” featuring the following government officials from the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, and FTC discussing current and future enforcement...more

A&O Shearman

Top challenges for white collar crime and investigations lawyers in 2024

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We asked our global white collar crime team for their views on the key challenges in 2024 for in‑house investigations teams and white collar crime lawyers, and how to manage the associated risks. Here is what they said. ...more

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Regulators and reforms: how Australia tackled white collar crime in 2023 and what to expect in 2024

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Regulators and enforcement authorities in Australia intensified their efforts to curb white-collar crime in 2023. They targeted fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, cybercrime, and corruption across multiple industries,...more

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China's enforcement trends and developments: a review of data, bribery, and corporate crime issues

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Commercial bribery enforcement also became more active, as the authorities marked the 30th anniversary of the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law. The revision of the PRC Anti-Espionage Law raised some concerns about national...more

A&O Shearman

New UK 'failure to prevent' fraud corporate criminal offence published - Update

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The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 was granted Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. It contains a new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ corporate criminal offence which will render large companies liable for fraud...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

DOJ Relies on Traditional Statutes To Charge Defendants in Cryptoasset Fraud Cases

Two recent indictments highlight the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) continuing use of the traditional wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft statutes to pursue fraud involving digital assets, indicating that law...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

Anatomy of a Falsifying Business Records Case Under New York Law

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In the world of white-collar criminal prosecution in New York by either a District Attorney or the Attorney General, the crime of Falsifying Business Records is omnipresent. The crime of Falsifying Business Records comes...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

False Claims Act Enforcement: Looking Back and What to Expect in 2023

This is the first in our 2023 series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Up next: criminal tax enforcement. The False Claims Act (or “FCA”) continued to drive significant enforcement...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Update: The Growing Wave of PPP Loan Prosecutions

As the pandemic slowly recedes, leaving a host of hastily-enacted funding and programs in its wake, the government’s recovery and clean-up efforts are well underway. In April and May 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ)...more

Alston & Bird

New Administration, New Enforcement Priorities

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Three weeks into the Biden Administration, businesses must prepare for significant changes in regulatory and enforcement priorities. Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team summarizes the new...more

The Volkov Law Group

Valeant Pharmaceuticals (Now Bausch Health) and Three Former Executives Settle SEC Cases

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Bausch Health agreed to pay the SEC $45 million to settle Valeant Pharmaceuticals (former name) accounting fraud schemes.  Three former executives, former CEO Michael Pearson, CFO Howard Schiller and Controller Tanya Carro...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Flirting with Disaster: SBA Inspector General Warns of “Serious Concerns” of Fraud in Coronavirus Disaster-Relief Loan Program in...

On July 28, 2020, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a Management Alert entitled “Serious Concerns of Potential Fraud in the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program...more

Cozen O'Connor

Expect an Uptick in Employee Embezzlement Following COVID-19 Lockdowns

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As businesses across the country begin to reopen in the wake of COVID-19, they should prepare for an anticipated surge of embezzlement schemes by employees — and banks and financial institutions should prepare for a surge of...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Fraud is Everywhere. The IRS is looking for it and the Forensic Accountants are right behind them

The Internal Revenue Manual defines fraud as a “deception by misrepresentation of material facts or silence when good faith requires expression, which results in material damage to one who relies on it and has the right to...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.15.2019 | Top Story: Uber lays off 350 more corporate workers in effort to control costs

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Ride-hailing giant Uber laid off 350 workers on Monday as part of an ongoing effort to pare costs that now represents 1000 jobs cut since July....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Recidivism Under the FCPA: Zimmer Biomet

Last week Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. paid a high price for its and its predecessors failure to comply with the terms and conditions of 2012 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (the “2012 DPA”). Biomet, having originally paid $23...more

Fish & Richardson

The Top Ten Things Every Commercial Litigator Must Know About the Fifth Amendment

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Invoking the Fifth Amendment privilege is not just for scenes from Law & Order or Better Call Saul. These days commercial cases, especially those involving individual defendants, are commonly filled with claims that have...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance at the Tipping Point, Part III – The VW Emissions-Testing Scandal

I continue my series on why I believe that compliance is at the ‘Tipping Point’ with a discussion of the Volkswagen (VW) emissions-testing scandal and its effect on the greater compliance world. Myself and many other...more

BakerHostetler

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2015 Update

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Despite a decline in enforcement actions by the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the first half of 2015 has continued to highlight the relevance and ever-evolving effects of the...more

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