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Tell A Story To Drive Compliance

by Thomas Fox on 5/17/2013

Sometimes a story will help you understand just what you did not understand. Did you know that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a formal investigation in 1964 into the supposedly pornographic lyrics of the...more

IRS Scandal UPDATE: DOJ And FBI Launch Criminal Probe

by William McGinley | Patton Boggs LLP on 5/15/2013

The Washington Post is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed during a press conference today that he has ordered the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the IRS’s targeting of...more

Global Connection - May 2013: DOJ Investigation of a Media Company Shows that FCPA Is Best Viewed Broadly; Sting Operations Will...

by Sara J. Agne | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 5/8/2013

The news this month that the FBI will continue to use sting operations to net Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA or the Act) violators only serves to emphasize that the FCPA is best viewed broadly. The net cast by the...more

PED Cheats And FCPA Violators – Kissing Cousins?

by Thomas Fox on 4/23/2013

“I never failed a drug test” has become one of the iconic lines of performance enhancing drug (PED) cheats from Lance Armstrong to A-Rod. This denial has a kissing cousin in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) world in...more

Cyber Law Tracker: FBI Prohibited From Issuing National Security Letters

by Steven J. Bonafonte, Alex Hernandez, Timothy Ronan, James Shearin | Pullman & Comley, LLC on 4/3/2013

In a detailed opinion issued just this month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California struck down an oft-used FBI counterterrorism tool. Under the statute at issue, the FBI has issued tens of...more

Levick Weekly - March 29, 2013: 6 Ways To Survive The U.S. Congress

by Peter LaMotte, Richard S. Levick, John Lovallo, Kathleen Wailes | LEVICK on 4/1/2013

In This Issue: - Financial Regulators Compete; JPMorgan Loses - Six Ways to Survive the U.S. Congress - How to Protect Your Brand from a Twitter Hacking - Blogs Worth Following - LEVICK In the News -...more

Judge Strikes Down FBI’s Use of ‘National Security Letters’

by Jeff Ifrah on 3/29/2013

In a recent decision, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California struck down the FBI’s use of National Security Letters (NSLs) as unconstitutional. Unbeknownst to most Americans, the FBI has been...more

Financial Regulators Compete, JPMorgan Loses

by John Lovallo, Kathleen Wailes | LEVICK on 3/29/2013

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); and the Office of the Comptroller of...more

California District Court Finds National Security Letter Statute Unconstitutional

by Brad Guyton, John Seiver | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/22/2013

Last week, in In re National Security Letter, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found unconstitutional two sections of the federal law allowing the FBI to issue “National Security...more

SEC And FBI Try To Ketchup To Heinz Insider Traders

by Jim Burns Jr., Jennifer Liu, Katie Lieberg Stowe | Orrick - Securities Litigation and Regulatory... on 2/26/2013

In the latest development in an SEC lawsuit filed Friday, February 15, U.S. District Judge Rakoff extended a freeze on a Swiss Goldman Sachs account linked to possible insider trading in H.J. Heinz Company call options. The...more

Obama Administration Reports on Efforts to Prevent Trade Secret Misappropriation

by Kevin E. Noonan | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 2/26/2013

The Obama Administration issued a Report earlier this month, entitled "Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets," that sets forth its efforts to prevent trade secret misappropriation. The Report...more

Engineers Convicted For Theft Of Trade Secrets

by John Paul Nefflen | Burr & Forman on 2/25/2013

Two engineers were recently convicted under federal law for stealing trade secrets from Goodyear. (United States v. Howley and Roberts, 2013 WL 399345 (Feb. 4, 2013 6th Cir.).) Charles Roberts and Sean Howley worked as...more

Interview with Scott Moritz

by Thomas Fox on 2/20/2013

Ed. Note-today we continue with our series on thought leaders and practitioners in the compliance arena. Today, we have an interview with Scott Moritz, who is a Managing Director, Protiviti (www.protiviti.com)...more

Massachusetts Expands Background Check Law To Close Loophole

by David B. Weisenfeld | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 1/30/2013

A new Massachusetts law will require all newly-hired teachers at public and private schools, bus drivers and others working at schools or child care programs with direct unsupervised contact with children, to undergo national...more

When FBI Agents (Allegedly) Talk In The Hallway; Or Why Even A Lawyer Should Not Talk To The FBI If There's A Real Estate Fraud...

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 1/29/2013

Marc Engelmann was accused of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, as well as bank and wire fraud. He was convicted at trial after some very shady stuff might have happened between two FBI agents. The Eighth Circuit...more

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Tell A Story To Drive Compliance

IRS Scandal UPDATE: DOJ And FBI Launch Criminal Probe

Global Connection - May 2013: DOJ Investigation of a Media Company Shows that FCPA Is Best Viewed Broadly; Sting Operations Will...

PED Cheats And FCPA Violators – Kissing Cousins?

Cyber Law Tracker: FBI Prohibited From Issuing National Security Letters

Levick Weekly - March 29, 2013: 6 Ways To Survive The U.S. Congress

Judge Strikes Down FBI’s Use of ‘National Security Letters’

Financial Regulators Compete, JPMorgan Loses

California District Court Finds National Security Letter Statute Unconstitutional

SEC And FBI Try To Ketchup To Heinz Insider Traders

Obama Administration Reports on Efforts to Prevent Trade Secret Misappropriation

Engineers Convicted For Theft Of Trade Secrets

Interview with Scott Moritz

Massachusetts Expands Background Check Law To Close Loophole

When FBI Agents (Allegedly) Talk In The Hallway; Or Why Even A Lawyer Should Not Talk To The FBI If There's A Real Estate Fraud...

Bitcoins: Online Currency’s Uncharted Frontier

Insider Trading Enforcement And Deterrence

What Does The FBI Investigate?

Father Of Man Killed By Kenosha Police Seeks FBI Investigation

Milwaukee Police Department Misreports More Crimes

Update: Third Party Payment Processor Sentenced to Jail Time for Processing Internet Poker Company Funds

AntiSec Hackers Strike Again

NC: Cutting Edge R&D and Cutting Edge Corporate Espionage

FBI Reportedly Seeking Expansion of CALEA to New Communications and Technology Platforms

Spotlight on the Economic Espionage Act

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