Will INTERPOL Issue a Red Notice Against an Innocent Person?
Testing Your Compliance Program
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 53 - Diagnosis: Innocent – A Doctor’s Journey to Acquittal
Episode 352 -- Review of 2024 DOJ and SEC Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance
False Claims Act Insights - Is DOJ Allowed to Share Privileged Documents with Whistleblowers in FCA Disputes?
EAC Network – Empower, Assist and Care
Understanding the Latest DOJ Changes to Corporate Prosecutions
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 52 - Engineered for Injustice: How Coerced Pleas Trap the Innocent
Episode 350 -- Deep Dive into McKinsey FCPA Case
False Claims Act Insights - Swamp Things: A Post-Election Look at DOJ’s False Claims Act Enforcement, Part II
Measuring Compliance Program Effectiveness
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Self-Disclosure, Cooperation, and the Hazards of Knowing Too Little
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 51 - A Higher Duty of Care: Representing Clients Living With Mental Illness
False Claims Act Insights - Swamp Things: A Post-Election Look at DOJ’s False Claims Act Enforcement, Part I
Episode 349 -- Review of the BIT Mining FCPA Settlement
Regulatory vs. Business Compliance
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 4 - A Focus on the FCA – Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 482: Listen and Learn -- Assault and Battery (Crim Law)
Envisioning a Compliant Workforce
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 50 - Hidden in Plain Sight: How Kleptocrats Exploit U.S. Financial Systems
Last week, the government submitted its decision to the federal court not to retry partially-acquitted pharmacy executive, Chad Beene, for conspiracy and illegal kickback allegations. At the end of last year, a New Jersey...more
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove issued a Memorandum to all Department of Justice (DOJ) employees outlining interim guidance in light of the Executive Orders issued by President Donald Trump on his first day in...more
On January 15, 2025, BitMEX, a Seychelles-registered crypto exchange, was fined $100 million in connection with a previously entered guilty plea to criminal violations of US anti-money laundering (AML) laws. The penalty...more
In an unprecedented move, Broward County Circuit Court Judge Andrew Siegel recently used virtual reality (VR) technology during a stand-your-ground hearing. On December 14, 2024, he wore an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset to...more
Recently, President Biden announced that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office to issue clemency actions intended to nullify prison terms...more
This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
Morrison Foerster partner Carrie H. Cohen, global co-chair of the Investigations + White Collar Defense Group and State + Local Government Enforcement team, spoke with Christine Wong, a partner in MoFo’s Investigations +...more
Auditing and monitoring of the compliance program is pretty standard these days. Entain’s Karen Nightingale, Group Director of Ethics & Compliance and Jonathan Fox, Group Head of Ethics & Compliance Programmes, make the case...more
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This Order declares a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to designate certain international cartels and other organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations or Specially...more
Enforcement and compliance prognosticators (like myself) continued to push DOJ’s promise to transform sanctions enforcement into the era of “the new FCPA.” While DOJ’s promise to bring about an aggressive corporate...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision today: Andrew v. White, No. 23-6573: In this case, the Court addressed whether the State violated petitioner Brenda Andrew’s due process rights when, during her...more
For six and a half years, Dr. Muhamad Aly Rifai, a physician from Easton, PA, lived in fear and anxiety that life as he knew it was over. A leader in telehealth psychiatric services since the early 2000s, Dr. Rifai was...more
When they were introduced in 2017, Unexplained Wealth Orders ("UWOs") were hailed as an important new law enforcement tool, which would allow more robust and effective investigation of the suspected proceeds of crime....more
In an unusual criminal prosecution, the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (CRMC), a hospital in Chesapeake, Virginia, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Virginia for conspiring to defraud the United States and...more
Will INTERPOL Issue a Red Notice Against an Innocent Person? Michelle Estlund knows that being wanted by INTERPOL is often frightening, isolating, and unjust. She has a proven track record of success with INTERPOL cases, and...more
In her annual report to Congress for 2024, National Taxpayer Advocate (“NTA”) Erin M. Collins identified the processing of Employee Retention Credits (“ERCs”), the administration of civil penalties, and changes to the...more
The past year marked the culmination of the Biden antitrust era. Under assertive leadership, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) adopted a more aggressive...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Guan v. Ellingsworth Res CA - bankruptcy - Doty v. State - capital case, postconviction relief - Owens v. State - postconviction relief, multiple motions - Davis v. State -...more
While DOJ did not have an overwhelming FCPA enforcement year, DOJ has devoted significant energy to tweaking its enforcement and compliance policies. These measures were believed to coincide with a number of significant...more
On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced $2.9 billion in total False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for FY 2024, a slight increase from 2023. In addition to growing recoveries, DOJ announced a new...more
DOJ Reports Nearly $3 Billion in FCA Settlements, Judgments for FY 2024 - On January 15, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act (FCA) totaled more than $2.9...more
How will your company withstand the heat of aggressive sanctions enforcement? Are you ready for the DOJ’s new priorities and OFAC’s expanding reach in 2025? In this episode of Corruption, Crime, and Compliance, Michael...more
In past years we have discussed how opioid-related enforcement efforts have remained a top federal and state priority (here, here, and here). In 2024, opioid-related enforcement efforts continued across the entire opioid...more