The FBI on Economic Espionage
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Varsity Blues Reversals Turn DOJ Red
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No Password Required: An FBI Special Agent's Journey from Submarines to Anti-Corruption to Cybersecurity
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 23: "Former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe”
The Latest from the DOJ Antitrust Division
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 7 - Investigative Insights: A Conversation with a Former FBI Agent
DE Under 3: OFCCP AAP Verification Portal 'Rules of Behavior', Vaccination Injunction Updates, & Recent Job Scam Alerts
Cybersecurity: Headlines, Best Practices and Its Evolving Role
Digging Deeper, Episode 1: The Con Queen of Hollywood
Devil in the Details: Gilbert King on Truth and Transparency in the Judicial Process
Compliance Perspectives: The FBI on Why and How to Work with the Office of the Private Sector
This Week in FCPA-Episode 54, the Rubber Match Edition
On May 8, 2023, federal agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in executing a search warrant at JinkoSolar’s solar panel manufacturing plant in Jacksonville,...more
Over the past few days, PilieroMazza received a number of inquiries related to our recent posting entitled DOD Releases New List of Section 889 Banned Entities. In that post, we discussed how DOD recently released a new list...more
With steep inflation and seemingly constant disruptions in supply chains for all manner of goods, the Biden Administration has turned increasingly to antitrust authorities to tame price increases and stem future bottlenecks....more
To get a better understanding of the state of antitrust enforcement we sat down with Andrew Mast, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the US Department of Justice. In this podcast he shares key...more
On July 6, 2022, the heads of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the British MI5 law enforcement agencies issued an unprecedented joint statement warning about espionage and other economic threats from China....more
On February 23, 2022, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Matthew Olsen, the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Security Division (NSD), announced that a review of the China Initiative begun under the Trump...more
On 17 February, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Antitrust Division) announced that it is launching a joint initiative with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to “deter and prosecute those who would...more
Background: Brian Murphy has just wrapped up a decorated twenty-five-year career in the government, which included five years in the Marine Corps, followed by twenty years in the FBI. Brian’s career in the government recently...more
Privacy In Focus®- In 2021, cyber gained prominence as a top business risk and national security concern with ransomware attacks wreaking havoc on business operations and critical infrastructure. Companies large and small,...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services recently announced new guidance addressing ransomware attacks, and highlighting cybersecurity measures to significantly reduce the risk of an attack. The guidance comes as...more
You just can’t make this stuff up – the Justice Department, displaying its growing sophistication of the cyber world, announced it recovered most of the ransom paid to criminal hackers of Colonial Pipeline Co. (Colonial)....more
The Times digs into what it’s calling private equity’s “conquer[ing of] the American tax system”—where “slight-of-hand tax-avoidance strategies” are so “aggressive” and pervasive that “at least three private equity officials...more
On June 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it seized 63.7 of the 75 bitcoins paid by Colonial Pipeline to ransomware attackers last month. The recovered bitcoins were valued at $2.3 million at the time of...more
Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more
CYBERSECURITY - President Biden Signs Executive Order to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Federal Government Following Colonial Pipeline Attack - President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Wednesday, May 12, 2021,...more
Ransomware attacks are so frequent that they seem like old news. There is a new interest in ransomware attacks following the attack against Colonial Pipeline....more
Selected Developments in U.S. Law - NYDFS Issues Report on the SolarWinds Attack and Covered Entities’ Responses Following the SolarWinds cyber espionage attack and the resulting focus on supply chain risk, the New York...more
On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity following a series of highly publicized cybersecurity incidents during the first four months of his presidency, including the...more
When the COVID-19 crisis struck in early 2020, the immediate need for mass quantities of personal protective equipment (PPE) resulted in major supply shortages that made headlines across the country. As suppliers scrambled to...more
On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a “highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack” by a nation state affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of public and...more
Reflecting increasing U.S. government concern regarding Chinese access to U.S. critical technologies and critical infrastructure, POWER magazine recently reported on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) publication of a Request...more
The Justice Department and the FBI have quickly acted to focus on fraudsters and hoarders seeking to profit from the public panic in response to the pandemic. DOJ issued a memo to U.S. Attorneys prioritizing investigations...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) - The United States Department of Justice hosted the Summit on Combating Human Trafficking on Jan. 14 in Washington, D.C. Attorneys general from across the U.S....more
Media Transparency: An Update on the Status of the FBI/DOJ Investigation, Recovery Efforts and Best Practices Going Forward - The number of issues and areas of inquiry resulting from the revelations set forth in the...more
We are now two years into the current presidential administration and regulators have imposed three of the ten largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act penalties in history and the largest export controls penalty of all time....more