AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - The D.C. and Georgia Trump Indictments
What to Do When an Employee Receives a Subpoena
When Should Presidential Appointees Lawyer Up? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 17]
Do I Need a Lawyer? Federal Employees Under Investigation [More with McGlinchey Ep. 1]
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Government Investigative Demands
Polsinelli Podcast - Social Media at Work - What's Allowed and What Isn't?
What Not To Do If You Are Involved in a Federal Criminal Investigation
Do You Need A Lawyer for a Federal Grand Jury Subpoena?
The Department of Justice continues to have its task forces throughout the U.S. investigate and prosecute fraudulent use of funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) programs...more
How does a Pennsylvania grand jury work? A Pennsylvania investigating grand jury is a group of 23 to 38 jurors selected from the community pursuant to the Pennsylvania Investigating Grand Jury Act to assist prosecutors and...more
In this episode, Jeff Jacobovitz, AGG trial attorney and chair of the firm’s Antitrust group, examines the D.C. and Georgia indictments of former President Donald Trump on charges related to alleged attempts to overturn the...more
In April 2022, CMS announced an initiative to pay for Medicare beneficiaries to receive free OTC COVID-19 test kits. Specifically, Medicare established a demonstration project to pay various eligible healthcare providers to...more
Financial services companies, such as banks, credit unions, lenders, finance companies, loan servicers, broker-dealers, and securities firms, often receive subpoenas from parties in litigation involving their customers,...more
Federal criminal cases can broadly be divided into four phases: (i) the government’s investigation, (ii) grand jury proceedings, (iii) pretrial practice, and (iv) trial. The empanelment of a grand jury is a critical juncture,...more
On June 7, 2022, the media published a search warrant application seeking access to the electronic communications of a retired four-star Marine Corps general, General John R. Allen, in a criminal investigation into potential...more
Several federal agencies rely on search warrants to gather evidence in support of their law enforcement efforts. If you have received a search warrant from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement...more
Receiving a federal grand jury subpoena is a serious matter. Whether you are the target of a federal investigation or prosecutors believe you have information they can use to pursue charges against another person or company,...more
In April 2021, the SEC released several public statements that may have begun to cool a superheated SPAC market. FINRA soon followed suit, announcing in July 2021 a regulatory sweep aimed at SPACs. Now, for the first time, a...more
During a recent program discussing the latest government enforcement efforts related to cryptocurrency, we spoke with Gary Alford, one of the leading Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents in their crypto enforcement efforts,...more
Following the US Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) announcement of “Operation Hidden Treasure,” companies and individuals should prepare for increased scrutiny of virtual currency transactions. Unveiled in March, the operation...more
As the nation’s chief domestic investigative agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has substantial authority to collect information through a variety of different means. This includes utilizing subpoenas to compel...more
What Is A Target Letter? Federal investigations are complex, time-consuming, and often a cause of great anxiety for the individuals involved. The government has a variety of tools in its arsenal to gather preliminary...more
On January 19, 2020, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) launched an investigation into a dozen debt collectors potentially engaging in unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or...more
What Is the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”)? The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is a federal agency that enforces consumer protection laws and competition regulation in the United States. Its dual mission is (1) to...more
The Situation: While investigating a website for criminal activities, federal agents traced Bitcoin transactions and issued a subpoena to a virtual-currency exchange to identify customers of the site. Using that information,...more
On July 9, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Trump v. Vance, No. 19-635, holding that President Donald Trump was required to respond to a state subpoena of his tax returns and other financial information because “Article...more
The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act), a United States federal law, will be celebrating its two-year anniversary on March 23, 2020. It was effectively, and primarily, an amendment to the Stored...more
In this age of heightened international enforcement of corporate crime, it is critical that companies be prepared for the possibility that government authorities will employ a variety of investigative techniques to obtain...more
On the latest episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, Brydon DeWitt is joined by colleague Chuck James, partner and co-chair of Williams Mullen’s White Collar Litigation Practice, who will discuss what you need to...more
Receiving notice that the government is investigating your organization, employees or corporate and/or scientific practice can be a cause for alarm – but it doesn’t have to be. Former federal prosecutors and Jackson Lewis...more
Companies storing or moving large quantities of digital information routinely receive subpoenas, court orders and warrants from United States law enforcement seeking subscriber information and related data and records....more
In an important decision for all law enforcement agencies, the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County quashed a civil subpoena directed to a local police department. The subpoena sought a toxicology report that the...more
The Ninth Circuit recently heard an appeal that challenges a common tool of law enforcement: “f” letters. Under section 2703(f) of the Stored Communications Act, law enforcement may compel providers of “electronic...more