The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 45 - The Grit, Grace and Gift of Second Chances
The Justice Insiders Podcast - The Ever-Expanding Net: Corporate Compliance in an Era of Increasing Trade Sanctions and Restrictions
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
Episode 333 -- The Boeing Proposed Plea Agreement
DOJ’s New Self-Disclosure Policy and Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
False Claims Act Insights - Assessing the Fallout from a Thermonuclear FCA Verdict
FCPA Survival Guide - Step 8 - Investing in Compliance
Exploring the AI and Crypto Intersection
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Jarkesy’s Implications for the Administrative State
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 41 - The Dynamics of Decision-Making: Psychology and the Criminal Justice System
INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations?
False Claims Act Insights - Eureka! Government Investigators Seek Out Research Misconduct
The Justice Insiders Podcast - AI-Washing: Everything Old Is New Again
The CFPB and State AGs Act Jointly Against Online Educational Company
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
FCPA Survival Guide: Step 3 - Extensive Remediation
Episode 324 -- Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
Compliance Tip of the Day – Compliance Lessons from the Albemarle FCPA Enforcement Action
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 38 - A Blueprint for Compliance: The Fraud Pentagon Theory
The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 requires overseas entities which own, or wish to acquire, certain real estate in the UK to register with Companies House and to provide, and keep up-to-date,...more
A recent enforcement action from the Fort Worth Regional Office of the SEC reminds one of the agency's investor-protection mission and continued focus on those who deceive retail investors in the private offer and sale of...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection (DCP or Division; collectively with the FTC, Plaintiffs) brought law enforcement actions against defendants Nudge LLC, Dean...more
On September 30, 2022, the SEC charged Jonathan William Mikula and five other individuals with securities fraud for promoting securities without disclosing their compensation. The issuers of those securities also were charged...more
With the increased focus on the lack of access to capital in certain communities, and the generational impacts of such deficit, the SEC’s expanded definition of accredited investor takes a step in the right direction, but...more
BlackRock Inc. will sell out of all companies “that get more than 25% of sales from thermal coal.” This threshold, however, won’t affect larger, diversified miners—which includes some of the biggest coal shippers....more
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously decided that short-term rentals in areas zoned for “single housekeeping unit” is inconsistent with Pennsylvania legal precedent and governmental policy. This ruling is expected to...more
The California Commissioner of Business Oversight is require to prepare an annual report summarizing the data collected from issuers that were granted permits to offer and sell securities pursuant to Corporations Code §...more
Prime Minister Theresa May has proven herself to be a remarkably good political survivor in the face of tall odds, but even she will have a difficult time this time around. Members of her own Tory party have called for a...more
The Situation: Federal prosecutors have asserted that two cryptocurrencies sold in initial coin offerings ("ICOs") are "securities" for purposes of federal securities laws in a criminal indictment alleging fraud against the...more
A recent Wall Street Journal headline announced “SEC Looks Into Kushner Cos. Over Use of EB-5 Program for Immigrant Investors.” It is not unusual to hear that a company is being investigated by the government over...more
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – Canadian Mining Company Settles with SEC over FCPA Charges – On March 26, Kinross Gold Corporation settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its alleged failure to...more
Holland & Knight invites you to read our Winter 2017 Israel Practice newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent American-Israeli topics. As Israel has been a crossroads and a prolific source of new ideas for more than...more
On Friday, December 1, 2017, the SEC filed an emergency action in federal district court in Brooklyn alleging that Dominic Lacroix and Sabrina Paradis-Roger, both from Quebec, Canada, raised approximately $15 million in a...more
The U.S. Treasury Department has signaled the latest focus of its enforcement: real estate ventures with ties to money laundering schemes. Individual real estate investors and companies involved in luxury real estate, real...more
The EB-5 program is supposed to provide a path to a permanent green card. The program was designed to create that path for foreign national who invest specified sums in the U.S. that create jobs – a win win for everyone....more
Offering fraud has long been a staple of SEC enforcement. SEC v. Baldwin, Civil Action No. 2:15-cv-00458 (D. UT. Filed June 25, 2015) is one such action, centered on the acquisition of two defaulted loans, collateralized by...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently entered into a consent order against International Land Consultants, Inc. (ILC), a real estate development company, and four of its employees involved in the marketing,...more
This is the second installment in our coverage of the DOJ’s recent criminal cartel enforcement actions. Over the last six months, more than fifty individuals have pleaded guilty as a result of the DOJ’s antitrust...more
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has been flexing its muscles lately to remind everyone of its important role in money laundering enforcement. Jennifer Shasky, the current Director, a former...more
The Commission filed two settled offering fraud actions centered in part around an entity engaged in the purchase and sale of thoroughbred horses called Raintree Racing. A second involved an offering of interests in a real...more
A business man, a real estate company he acquired from his grandfather, a registered representative who has now been barred by FINRA from the securities business and Maryland Division of Securities from the advisory business...more