Episode 347 -- LRN's Code of Conduct Survey
Episode 345 -- Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
False Claims Act Insights - Powerful, But Not All-Powerful: CIDs in FCA Litigation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 49 - Perspectives From the Bench: Anatomy of a Criminal Trial With Retired Judge Margaret Foti
JONES DAY TALKS®: Detecting and Addressing Prosecutorial Misconduct: An Overview for Defense Lawyers
Navigating the Dark Side of Crypto: Crime, Compliance, and Consumer Protection – The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Episode 344 -- SEC Settles FCPA Case with Moog for $1.7 Million
Episode 343 -- TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 48 - Digital Boundaries: Fourth Amendment Protections in a Connected World
False Claims Act Insights - Reality Checks: How to Approach Healthcare Transactions Without Triggering FCA Liability
Episode 342 -- How to Conduct an Internal Compliance Site Visit and Review
Extraterritoriality — RICO Report Podcast
Episode 341 -- DOJ Charges Visa with Monopolization and Exclusionary Conduct in the Debit Card Market
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 47 - Fireside Chat With Bill Baroni and Jesse Eisinger
Episode 340: DOJ Updates Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
Public-Private Partnerships to Stem Corruption
False Claims Act Insights - Are the FCA’s Qui Tam Provisions Unconstitutional? One Federal Judge Says “Yes"
Episode 339: Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 46 - America’s Incarceration Industry: Exposing Private Prisons
Episode 338 -- Deep Dive into the Deere SEC FCPA Case
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As technology becomes more integrated into our lives, it has introduced new challenges, particularly in domestic violence cases. One of the most alarming trends is the rise of cyber harassment, where individuals use...more
A November 25 article in Part B News, “Third-party biller fraud may hook your practice, unless you protect yourself,” discussed the federal government’s recent fraud investigation of a medical biller in New York State and...more
We distil key practical takeaways from the UK Government’s official guidance on the corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud (the Guidance). Businesses and compliance teams will be working to review and...more
What is willful blindness according to the IRS? How is this important in tax cases involving unreported or under-reported income, disclosure of offshore assets and income, FinCEN Form 114 (more commonly referred to as an...more
In recently released updated guidance, the Antitrust Division (“Antitrust Division”) of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) outlined how its prosecutors will assess corporate compliance programs when conducting criminal...more
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the “ECCTA”) introduced a corporate ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence providing that ‘large’ organisations may be held criminally liable if an ‘associate’ (such as an...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Phillips 66 Company with violating the Clean Water Act. The matter is being handled by the...more
Each year, Take the Fifth blog compiles and analyzes key statistics from the opinions issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. While the Fifth Circuit itself compiles and releases statistics on a...more
On November 22, 2024, the SEC released its fiscal year 2024 enforcement statistics. According to the accompanying press release, the SEC filed 583 total enforcement actions—431 of them standalone actions—while obtaining $8.2...more
The information memo below was originally published on Nov. 23, 2023 and identified new filing requirements for certain business entities under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). While business entities formed on or after...more
The UK Government has finally published its official guidance on the corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud (the Guidance). The offence will come into force on 1 September 2025. By then, businesses that fall...more
The US Department of Justice Antitrust Division has updated its guidelines for the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations (AT ECCP). The AT ECCP updates include several important...more
On November 25, Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss both federal cases pending against President Trump: the election-interference case pending in district court in Washington, D.C., and the case relating to classified...more
Stablecoin Initiatives Announced by Fintech Companies, DeFi Protocols - Major U.S. payments firm recently announced plans to enable “disbursement partners” to use the PYUSD stablecoin to settle cross-border money...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Grayson v. Ala DOC - capital case, postconviction relief...more
CryptoLink is a compilation of news stories published by outside organizations. Akin aggregates the stories, but the information contained in them does not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of the firm. Akin's...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling that limits the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) ability to bring criminal charges for antitrust violations to stand. On November 12,...more
In November 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“Antitrust Division” or “Division”) updated its guidance on how it will evaluate Corporate Compliance Programs when conducting criminal antitrust...more
Owner, Operator of Texas Lab Charged for $79 Million Medical Testing Fraud Scheme - On November 20, Osman Syed, the owner and operator of a laboratory in Texas, was charged with three counts of health care fraud,...more
On 6 November 2024, the government released its much-anticipated guidance on the offence of failure to prevent fraud (the Guidance), as introduced by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act)....more
On Oct. 10, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that TD Bank pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and agreed to pay over $1.8 billion in penalties to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's...more
In this episode of Wicked Coin, hosts Diana Shaw and Tatiana Sainati delve into the controversies surrounding Victor Yanukovych’s presidency in Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. During his tenure, Ukraine was heavily affected by...more
In the era of digital economy, the blooming of digital products has led to the widespread implementation of technical measures to protect these products from unauthorized use. Rights holders frequently employ these measures...more
The Justice Department’s record of FCPA enforcement in 2024 has been disappointing. With all of the hoopla and pronouncements surrounding the global war against corruption, DOJ suggested that enforcement in 2023 and 2024...more