On September 9, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) issued a new policy memorandum (the “Yates Memo”) entitled “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing.” This short memorandum states a series of “six key steps to strengthen [the] pursuit of individual corporate wrongdoing, some of which reflect policy shifts[.]”
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