The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued a memorandum ("The Yates memo") on September 9, 2015 by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, reaffirming the Government's commitment to prosecuting individuals. Say...more
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Yates Memorandum
Following the widely criticized prosecution of the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), understandably, took steps to learn from the mistakes made in that case by drafting and distributing a...more