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Social Links: Columbus to Sacramento: The Compliance Tour

Ohio’s new age-verification law for online adult content, which requires online platforms to limit certain users’ access to sensitive material, took effect on September 30, 2025. The statute, RC § 1349.10, asks covered...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New DOJ Enforcement Risks Under the Trump Administration’s Campaign Against Cartels

The Trump Administration has launched a coordinated, whole‑of‑government strategy to “totally eliminate” transnational cartels and affiliated criminal organizations. Two major steps have significantly reshaped the risk...more

Mayer Brown

New Criminal Tariff Evasion Charges Signal DOJ’s Escalating Trade Fraud Push

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On November 17, 2025, the US Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey filed a criminal complaint alleging that Indonesian jewelry company UBS Gold, its Indonesian co-owner Michael Yahya, and two company employees...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

DOJ Signals Coming Surge in Criminal Tariff-Evasion Enforcement

At the American Conference Institute’s 42nd Annual Conference on FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption held on December 4, 2025 in Washington, senior officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reaffirmed that combatting...more

Quinn Emanuel

The White Collar Appeal: Second Circuit Affirms Conviction of Goldman Sachs Managing Director in 1MDB Scandal

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Ng Chong Hwa, better known as Roger Ng, is a Malaysian national who ran Goldman Sachs’ operations in Malaysia from 2012 to 2014. According to his former Goldman colleague Timothy Leissner’s trial testimony, between 2012 and...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 74 - Shattered Scales: Structural Harm in the Criminal Justice System

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Is the American criminal justice system designed to find truth and justice? Or is it an apparatus created to secure convictions as efficiently as possible and penalize poverty? Peer behind the courthouse door with...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

UK Enforcement and Compliance 2025 Year-End Roundup

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As another significant year in white-collar crime and corporate enforcement in the UK comes to a close, we have summarised the key developments shaping the regulatory and investigations landscape in 2025. Below is a snapshot...more

Thompson Coburn LLP

The Gamble Behind ‘No-Risk’ Games: Legal Challenges Across States

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You walk into a gas station to pick up your favorite road trip treats and a drink to keep you alert. While making your selections, your attention is drawn to a sight familiar to many: flashing lights and animations that pull...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Dangers of Climbing the Ladder

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In this episode of "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook" podcast, litigation attorney Dan Small discusses the opportunities and challenges of "climbing the ladder" in a corruption case. This approach starts with securing a defendant...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN Proposes Barring Mexican Casinos from Financial System

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We blogged earlier this year about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s February 5, 2025 memorandum focusing the U.S. Department of Justice’s attention squarely on Mexican cartels, and about subsequent steps the Trump Administration...more

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DOJ Deputy Attorney General’s Keynote Address at ACI Conference – Key Takeaways

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At the American Conference Institute’s 42nd Annual Conference on FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption held on December 4, 2025 in Washington, DC, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche addressed white collar corporate enforcement...more

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Mexico Tightens Environmental Corporate Crimes

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On November 25, 2025, the Justice Committee of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies published the Committee Report with Draft Decree to Amend Various Provisions of the Federal Criminal Code Regarding Crimes Against the Environment...more

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SDNY Offers Companies Facing Investigation New Incentives for Quick Self-Disclosure

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Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) discussed corporate cooperation and self-disclosure in a fireside chat at the New York City Bar Association's annual International White Collar Symposium...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Shifts in white collar enforcement: DOJ priorities under Trump 2.0

On May 12, 2025, Matthew R. Galeotti, Acting Assistant Attorney General (AAG) of DOJ’s Criminal Division, issued a memorandum to all Criminal Division personnel. The subject of that memorandum was “Focus, Fairness, and...more

Quinn Emanuel

The White Collar Appeal: Cooperation is the Only Thing that Matters in Setting a Sentence Beneath the Mandatory Minimum

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Overview - •A cooperating defendant can obtain a sentence below the mandatory minimum only when the value of his cooperation—as distinct from other sentencing factors—justifies it, according to the Eleventh Circuit’s...more

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Florida Appeals Court Decisions Week of December 1 - 5, 2025

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U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Ismael v. Roundtree - § 1981, retaliatory discharge, McDonnell Douglas - Villarino v. Pacesetter Personnel - class action, employment, FLSA, employee charges - Fla Preborn...more

Bracewell LLP

From Pause to Pursuit: DOJ Enters Into DPA for FCPA Violations in Guatemala

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The US Department of Justice recently displayed its commitment to enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) through its first corporate Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) since lifting the FCPA enforcement...more

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UK SFO Updates Guidance On Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programmes

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The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has published updated guidance on evaluating corporate compliance programmes, clarifying when and how such assessments occur. The updated guidance identifies six scenarios in which it may...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Thumbs Up for Upjohn: Sixth Circuit Upholds Privilege for Internal Investigations

On October 3, 2025, in In re FirstEnergy Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a district court order that, if permitted to stand, would have required wholesale production of materials generated in an...more

Hogan Lovells

2025 ACI FCPA Recap: DOJ Reflections and Predictions

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At ACI's 42nd Annual FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption Conference (the Conference), presenters and panelists – including multiple members of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) leadership team – explored the latest trends...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK To Create Whistleblower Incentives To Boost Tax Collection

In the November 2025 Budget, the UK government confirmed that His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will be introducing a “US-style” whistleblower incentive scheme (Scheme) in the UK....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

New UK Serious Fraud Office guidance on corporate compliance programmes puts spotlight in the boardroom

On 26 November 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published guidance on ‘when, why and how’ it will evaluate corporate compliance programmes (the Compliance Guidance)....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

America First enforced: Recent FCPA action reflects administration priorities

On November 10, 2025, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into a two-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with a foreign telecommunications company, marking the first criminal corporate resolution since the Trump...more

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UK SFO New Corporate Compliance Guidance - What It Means For In-House Legal Teams

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In all of the SFO’s corporate prosecutions and Deferred Prosecution Agreements to date for failure to prevent bribery, there are common themes. One of these is that although the organisations had some policies and procedures...more

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Health Care Executive Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for “Wage Fixing”

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In October 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave notice, through the joint release of their now-withdrawn Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals, of their...more

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