What compliance expectations does the Department of Justice have for businesses entering the virtual currency space? How can a company meet those expectations to stay out of trouble with DOJ, or at least mitigate the effects...more
What does the Department of Justice think is a high-quality internal investigation? How does DOJ decide whether an investigation was good enough to help a company avoid, or at least mitigate, criminal charges? In recent...more
The latest developments in white-collar criminal law include a gamechanging decision on insider trading, new sentencing guidelines for fraud convictions, more options for filing charges under the bank fraud statutes, and a...more
2/18/2015
/ Administrative Hearings ,
Bank Fraud ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Sentencing Guidelines ,
Fraud ,
Insider Trading ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sentencing ,
White Collar Crimes
When can a corporation’s compliance program help stave off indictment? Or at least secure it more lenient treatment from the Department of Justice when resolving a case? DOJ has given fresh guidance on this issue for our...more