Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds....more
What should U.S. businesses take from the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) revisions to its Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (“CEP”)? While DOJ has long promoted self-disclosure of wrongdoing as a...more
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Watts, 19 US 148 (1997), judges have been permitted to consider acquitted conduct when calculating a defendant’s sentencing guidelines range and determining their...more
In what may come as a surprise to many, lawmakers across the political spectrum actually agree on at least one thing: the practice of sentencing federal defendants based on acquitted conduct has gone on long enough. Last...more