On April 24, 2024, President Joe Biden signed into law HR 815, which primarily provides supplemental emergency appropriations relating to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Although principally focused on an...more
On April 16, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule revising its procedures for establishing supervisory authority over nonbank financial institutions on the basis that the institution poses...more
Companies engaged in mergers & acquisitions activities should take note of the revised voluntary self-disclosure policy (VSD Policy) of the National Security Division (NSD) of the US Department of Justice, released on March...more
Voluntary compliance may be the backbone of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), but when the US government believes that a company is unwilling or unable to achieve compliance, it will seek to enforce the FDCA...more
In November 2023, a jury convicted two corporate executives of conspiracy and failure to report information about defective residential dehumidifiers as required by the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA). The jury verdict is...more
The Department of Justice continues to make clear that one of its principal corporate enforcement priorities is encouraging companies to voluntarily self-disclose misconduct. To that end, the DOJ recently announced its...more
GRID Networks LLC v. Quantum Leap Research LLC, et al., a recent case from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), is a fascinating illustration of the litigation challenges government contractors...more
The federal government sent another big signal that it’s stepping up efforts to keep cutting-edge, dual-use and military technologies out of the hands of adversarial foreign governments when it announced the launch of the...more
In May 2020, we published a blog post about the US-UK Data Access Agreement, a first-of-its-kind reciprocal agreement between the US and the UK. Under the agreement, law enforcement agencies in either country could obtain...more
On March 10, 2022, the Department of Justice announced the appointment of Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers to serve as the DOJ’s first Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement. This announcement comes two years...more
The US Department of Justice has announced the appointment of Eun Young Choi as the first director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team. Choi has been a DOJ prosecutor for nearly a decade and most recently served...more
On December 9, 2021, one of the nation’s top healthcare prosecutors made clear that clinical trial fraud will be a major enforcement priority of President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. Speaking at the Food and Drug Law...more
What you need to know Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of whistleblower complaints received by regulators has exploded on both sides of the Atlantic. On November 15, 2021, the US Securities and Exchange...more
Overview Last week, the #2 official at the Department of Justice announced significant new measures intended to strengthen the DOJ’s response to criminal corporate misconduct. In an address to the ABA’s National Institute on...more
The US Department of Justice is increasing its arsenal to pursue cyber-related fraud by government contractors and grant recipients. The program, called the “Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative,” was announced by Deputy Attorney...more
On July 9, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” With 72 initiatives and directives by more than a dozen federal agencies, the order seeks to aggressively “reduce...more
After bringing dozens of criminal charges against Paycheck Protection Program loan recipients in recent months, on January 12, the US Department of Justice announced its first civil settlement resolving allegations of PPP...more
It is no longer only borrowers who are facing potential Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan scrutiny, although, as promised, SBA has indeed begun sending inquiries to borrowers who are seeking forgiveness of loans greater...more
On June 1, the DOJ updated its guidance for evaluating a company’s compliance program when resolving corporate investigations. The updated guidance makes clear that prosecutors should consider a company’s particular...more
Late Friday, May 22, the Small Business Administration, which administers the Paycheck Protection Program, released two separate interim final rules: one regarding forgiveness and one regarding SBA review of PPP loans. This...more
As anticipated, the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated under the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program have become the focus of scrutiny from investigators. On May 8, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus...more
We have previously looked at the many ways CARES Act funding can provide critical sources of money for both small and large businesses. We also have described the oversight bodies created by the CARES Act to police the use of...more
We have previously looked at the many ways CARES Act funding can provide critical sources of money for both small and large businesses. We also have described the oversight bodies created by the CARES Act to police the use of...more
The President has signed a $2 trillion relief package, the "Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act" (CARES Act). The CARES Act is intended to provide "emergency assistance and health care response for individuals,...more
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The estimated $2+ trillion stimulus bill – the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act) – is meant to address the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The act will pump hundreds of...more