The Justice Insiders Podcast: Feds Danske to a New Tune
Daily Compliance News-November 1-Day of the Dead
Host Gregg N. Sofer is joined by Salvador Hernandez, former senior FBI official and private-sector compliance officer and current senior compliance and ethics advisor at Husch Blackwell, to discuss the recent U.S. Department...more
Factual Statement Is a Tale of Whistleblowing, High-Risk Customers, and Misleading U.S. Banks - Earlier this month, Danske Bank was sentenced in the Southern District of New York to three years of probation and forfeiture...more
Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark, agreed to plead guilty to fraud and paid $2 billion to settle long-standing anti-money laundering and fraud violations stemming from its banking operations in Estonia. Danske Bank...more
Over the past several blog posts, we have been exploring the Danske Bank A/S (Danske Bank), AML enforcement action in which Danske Bank pled guilty and agreed to forfeit $2 billion to resolve the US investigation into its...more
On December 13, 2022, Danske Bank A/S, headquartered in Denmark, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1349) and agreed to forfeit approximately $2.06 billion to resolve an investigation by...more
On February 25, 2020, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of shareholders’ securities-fraud class action against the Western Union Company (“Western Union”) and several of its current and former executive...more
The European Union (“EU”) recently has grappled with a series of massive money laundering scandals and strategized about how to more effectively combat international money laundering and corruption. Generally, the EU has...more
A quick check-in with Fed Chair Powell, the man trying to help keep the US economy humming—a hard enough job as it is, but one made much tougher by a White House that hasn’t been shy about voicing its near-constant...more
Kraft Heinz dropped a double-whammy on investors on Thursday, announcing a $15 billion charge against its Kraft and Oscar Mayer brands and revealing news of an SEC subpoena related to the company’s accounting practices....more
Quite a start to the week for consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co., with a Times expose on the questionable relationship between McKinsey’s clients and the investments its hedge fund has made in those same clients, not to...more
The Fed released minutes from its November meeting yesterday, and they reinforced the expected December rate hike while showing a more uncertain path for hikes in 2019....more