The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 45 - The Grit, Grace and Gift of Second Chances
Wicked Coin: The "Fat Leonard" Scandal
Navigating Civil Standing Requirements for Defense Success — RICO Report Podcast
Episode 330 – Halyna Senyk on Anti-Corruption Progress in Ukraine
Managing Corruption Risk in Latin America
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 38 - A Blueprint for Compliance: The Fraud Pentagon Theory
Episode 323 - Carlos Villagran Discusses Rebuilding a Corporate Culture After a Crisis
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 34 - A Conversation With Jesse Eisinger, Author of 'The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives'
Episode 317 -- A Deep Dive into the Trafigura FCPA Settlement
What's Going on with FCPA?
Episode 316 -- DOJ Announces New Whistleblower Policy
RICO Vicarious Liability — RICO Report Podcast
Episode 313 -- The Coming Criminal Corporate Sanctions Enforcement Storm
RICO Damages — RICO Report Podcast
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: DOJ’s Shifting Approach to Recidivism and Self-Disclosure
Episode 305 -- Deep Dive into SAP FCPA Settlement
AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - Developments in the Trump Indictments and Recent Supreme Court Issues
Episode 300 -- Deep Dive into DOJ FCPA Settlement with Two U.K. Reinsurance Companies for Bribery in Ecuador
AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - Examining the Latest Updates in the Pending Criminal and Civil Litigation Against Trump
The EU Directive for Combatting Corruption
The Department of Justice has launched the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program to fight corporate crime. See how it impacts your organization. The U.S. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has just rolled out the...more
On May 10, 2024, Romy Andrianarisoa, former Chief of Staff to the President of Madagascar, was convicted for soliciting bribes from Gemfields Group Ltd (Gemfields), a UK-based mining company specializing in rubies and...more
Since the Corporate Transparency Act took effect on January 1, 2024, scammers have seized the opportunity to send notices to owners of recently formed companies offering “filing services.” In response to these scams, FinCEN...more
To what extent are boards and senior executives in your country of focus taking proactive steps to reduce incidences of fraud and corruption from surfacing within their company? Over the past several years, there has been...more
On March 1, 2024, Judge Liles C. Burke of the Northern District of Alabama, Northeastern Division, ruled in U.S. v. Yellen that the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”) is unconstitutional. The federal district court found...more
On March 1, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) exceeds the constitutional limits on Congress’s legislative power and is therefore...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which became effective on January 1, 2024, requires that many businesses report a significant amount of information about the company and its “beneficial owners” to a federal database....more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the US Treasury Department has issued a final rule (Final Rule) implementing the beneficial ownership reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (together...more
Thanks to the Corporate Transparency Act, starting Jan. 1, 2024, all companies created in the United States must complete a new form with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, commonly known as...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is a newly effective federal law that requires certain entities to report their owners to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). Below are...more
This is a basic primer describing the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA“) which was enacted into federal law on January 1, 2021 as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and became effective January 1, 2024. The...more
As the new year begins, businesses of all sizes will have to contend with the federal Corporate Transparency Act. The CTA is part of the 1,482 page William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal...more
Beginning January 1, 2024, certain legal entities and their beneficial owners will face significant new reporting requirements in the United States. Under the Corporate Transparency Act (including the corresponding rules,...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is enacting new rules for January 1, 2024, requiring companies to report their beneficial owners to FinCEN. Violations of these new...more
As part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will take effect on January 1, 2024. Subject to some limited exemptions, this new law will require newly formed and already existing...more
Companies have new reporting requirements beginning January 1, 2024. The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) passed as part of an anti-money laundering regime. The CTA requires a government-maintained registry of beneficial...more
The reporting requirements for beneficial ownership information under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will come into effect on January 1st, 2024. The CTA, a bipartisan law enacted by Congress on January 1st, 2021,...more
It turns out that Venice invented the modern hotline reporting system with their Lion’s Mouth reporting protocol. The symbol of Venice is the Lion St. Mark. The use of this symbol has led to the maxim straight from the lion’s...more
CTA Denial #3: “My industry’s lobbyists would never allow such a law to get passed.” Lobbyists had staved off attempts to implement the CTA, and its predecessor bills, for decades....more
Beginning January 1, 2024, certain privately held companies, known as “reporting companies,” will be required to file a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report to identify, and provide personal information about, their...more
The purpose of the Corporate Transparency Act isto “better enable critical nationalsecurity, intelligence, and law enforcement efforts to counter money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity” by...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”), which takes effect on January 1, 2024, will require many companies to report certain beneficial ownership information to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), a...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted by Congress as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, for the first time under federal law, requires the establishment of a centralized, national beneficial ownership...more
This alert provides a summary of new reporting requirements created by the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) and associated implementing rules. The CTA is a federal law that requires broad categories of legal entities...more
On September 29, 2022, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule implementing the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements...more