On August 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its new “Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program” (“DOJ Program”), a three-year initiative managed by DOJ’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section....more
8/21/2024
/ Bank Secrecy Act ,
Bribery ,
CFTC ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Corruption ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Failure to Comply ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
Fraud ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Incentives ,
Internal Reporting ,
Investigations ,
Money Laundering ,
Pilot Programs ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblowers
On November 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced in an Enforcement Information that Apollo Aviation Group, LLC (Apollo), a Florida-based commercial aviation...more
12/2/2019
/ Aircraft ,
Aviation Industry ,
Compliance ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equipment Lease ,
Leases ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
SDN List ,
Sudan ,
Supply Chain ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Ukraine ,
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
On October 11, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Ashraf Seed Ahmed Hussein Ali, a Sudanese national widely known by his pseudonym “Al-Cardinal,” pursuant...more
10/18/2019
/ Blocked Person ,
Bribery ,
Corruption ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Executive Orders ,
Fraud ,
Fraudulent Procurement ,
Global Magnitsky Act ,
Government Officials ,
Human Rights ,
Kickbacks ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Sanction Violations ,
SDN List ,
Sudan ,
Trump Administration ,
US State Departments