As 2020 drew to a close, enforcement authorities throughout the United States and the Americas continued to investigate fraud, corruption, and other misconduct across the region. In this newsletter, we highlight some...more
3/11/2021
/ Bank Secrecy Act ,
Brazil ,
Bribery ,
CFTC ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Drug Trafficking ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Money Laundering ,
NDAA ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblowers
As 2020 drew to a close, enforcement authorities throughout the United States and the Americas continued to investigate fraud, corruption, and other misconduct across the region. Below, we highlight some developments from...more
1/22/2021
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Bank Secrecy Act ,
Brazil ,
Bribery ,
CFTC ,
Consumer Protection Act ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Corruption ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Drug Trafficking ,
Ecuador ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Financial Institutions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Latin America ,
Mexico ,
Money Laundering ,
NDAA ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sweden ,
Whistleblowers
As we wrote over the summer, Congress has passed a bill that will require certain corporations and limited liability companies (“LLCs”) to report information on their beneficial owners to the U.S. Treasury Department’s...more
12/23/2020
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Currency Transaction Reports (CTR) ,
Customer Due Diligence (CDD) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
FinCEN ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Limited Liability Company (LLC) ,
NDAA ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Popular ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Shell Corporations ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Whistleblowers