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SFO Announces Ambitious Five-Year Plan

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The Serious Fraud Office’s strategy for 2024 to 2029 indicates aspiration to be a more effective agency and to incentivise personnel. On 18 April 2024, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published an ambitious, albeit...more

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Department of Justice Announces Increased Nationwide Coordinated Law Enforcement Effort to Combat PPP Fraud

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The U.S. Justice Department recently announced an increased nationwide coordinated law enforcement effort aimed at combatting COVID-related fraud. The initiative seeks to identify and prosecute individuals and companies who...more

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DOJ Forms COVID-19 Fraud Task Force

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While COVID continues to lose its grip across America, its focus within the Department of Justice is just getting started. On Monday, the DOJ Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the formation of a COVID-19 Fraud...more

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The Role of Compliance in Government Enforcement

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As recent developments in corporate enforcement indicate, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to emphasize transparency, cooperation, and the importance of a strong compliance program. Enforcement trends...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

DOJ Puts Recipients of Federal Funds on Notice: New “Procurement Collusion Strike Force” to Focus Antitrust Scrutiny on Public...

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The Justice Department announced this week the formation of a new Procurement Collusion Strike Force, which will focus on “deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes, such as bid-rigging conspiracies...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - June 2016 #4

FTC Shuts Down Scam Touting Aid for Disabled Individuals - A telemarketer faces a Federal Trade Commission ban on claims that the sales of products would help disabled individuals....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Justice Department Issues New Policy Prioritizing Prosecution of Individuals in Corporate Cases

On September 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice issued guidance regarding the prosecution of individuals in cases involving criminal and civil corporate wrongdoing. The first major policy memorandum issued since Attorney...more

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Multinationals in China Should be Aware of Increased Enforcement of Environmental Law, Monitoring Requirements – and Fraud

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In the last twelve months the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been remarkably vocal about environmental law, monitoring, and fraud, especially under the new environmental...more

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Accounting Cases – An SEC Priority, But The Cases Being Filed are Class Actions

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Accounting and financial fraud cases are an SEC priority. The cases, however, are being brought by the private bar as class actions. The number of accounting class actions filed last year increased by 47% compared to the...more

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Caught in the Middle: What Is a Supplier Supposed to Do When Its Customers Ask to Use a DBE as a Pass-Through?

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Suppliers are caught in the middle of a new enforcement trend in federal, state, and local investigations of disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) fraud. Historically, DBE fraud investigations have focused on the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Robust Action Dominates Global Government Enforcement Landscape"

In the global criminal and regulatory enforcement arena, robust enforcement actions against multinational companies are likely to continue worldwide in 2015. In North and South America, Europe and Asia, with criminal...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Health Law Wire: US Department Of Justice Chief For The Criminal Division, Leslie R. Caldwell Stresses The Importance Of Effective...

DOJ’s Chief in charge of Criminal Prosecutions has been vocal on increased civil and criminal enforcement efforts. Over the past few months, the US Department of Justice has heightened its enforcement in health fraud matters...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Recent Remarks By Officials Reinforce DOJ’s Focus On Criminal Fraud Investigations And Prosecutions Of Culpable Individuals

In a trio of speeches given at separate events on September 17, 2014, Department of Justice (“DOJ”) officials announced new initiatives and points of emphasis in the Government’s ongoing efforts to hold corporations and...more

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OIG Plans to Fight Fraud, Waste, and Abuse While Promoting Quality, Safety, and Value in 2014

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2014 on January 31, 2014. The Work Plan provides insight into the OIG’s priorities by providing...more

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SEC “Refocuses” On Accounting Fraud

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It is almost a government rite of passage – when a new leader takes the reins, the chessboard has to be reorganized to reflect the new leader’s “new priorities.” When it comes to the SEC, and the new Chairwoman Mary Jo...more

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