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It’s On: The DOJ Releases Details About Its New Whistleblower Program

Woodruff Sawyer on 8/29/2024

Government agencies have been launching and testing whistleblower programs for some time and have been delighted by their results. Tippers have benefited, too—with some amassing multimillion-dollar awards. Not to be left...more

DOJ Announces Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program

Jones Day on 8/20/2024

The Development: On August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice's ("DOJ") Criminal Division announced its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program ("Pilot Program"), designed to reward whistleblowers who report information...more

Investigations Newsletter: DOJ Launches Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program

ArentFox Schiff on 8/12/2024

DOJ Launches Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program - On August 1, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the details of its new Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program. According to the DOJ, the...more

Off to the Races: DOJ Offers New Incentives for Whistleblowers and Companies to Report Misconduct

Paul Hastings LLP on 8/9/2024

Earlier this year, as described in a previous client alert, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Criminal Division announced a landmark pilot program to pay monetary awards to whistleblowers (the “Program”). At that time, Deputy...more

DOJ Criminal Division Launches New Corporate Whistleblower Award Program

Venable LLP on 8/7/2024

On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the Department of Justice (DOJ) would release a new whistleblower rewards program for civil and criminal forfeitures. On August 1, 2024, DOJ did just that—as the...more

Department of Justice Announces Groundbreaking Whistleblower Program in its Ongoing Effort to Incentivize Voluntary Self...

Snell & Wilmer on 5/10/2024

Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the DOJ is adopting a whistleblower incentive program today at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime. In...more

DOJ Enhancing Its Sanctions Toolkit

Womble Bond Dickinson on 5/2/2024

President Biden recently signed a foreign aid bill that will have significant implications for United States sanctions enforcement, specifically Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705)...more

“Knock on our door before we knock on yours:” Recent DOJ Trends

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/5/2024

On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco (“DAG Monaco”) gave the keynote address at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime. She addressed the success she views in the...more

OECD Recommendations and U.S. Anti-Corruption Strategy Show U.S. Should Award Whistleblowers who Report to Media

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP on 3/25/2024

Both the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption recognize that the news media plays a vital role in the detection of bribery and other acts of corruption...more

DOJ to Pay Whistleblowers

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/19/2024

On March 7, 2024, during her keynote remarks at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division...more

DOJ to Develop New Whistleblower Program to Augment Existing Federal Whistleblower Programs

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 3/15/2024

Last week Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will soon begin a pilot program to reward whistleblowers who alert prosecutors to significant corporate misconduct. The goal of...more

DOJ Announces Launch of New “Gap-Filling” Whistleblower Program

Seward & Kissel LLP on 3/14/2024

On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered the keynote remarks at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime. In her address, she announced a new, nationwide...more

DOJ Official Cites Old West ‘WANTED’ Posters in Announcement of New Whistleblower Monetary Awards Program

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/14/2024

On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will test out a program to pay whistleblowers if they provide information on serious financial crimes and foreign and...more

The Race to Report: DOJ Announces Pilot Whistleblower Program

Bracewell LLP on 3/13/2024

In recent years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has rolled out a significant and increasing number of carrots and sticks aimed at deterring and punishing white collar crime. Speaking at the American Bar Association White...more

“Export Controls Are the New Sanctions” and Other Enforcement Trends for 2024

Bracewell LLP on 1/12/2024

2023 was a banner year in the sanctions space and regulators seem primed to continue that performance in 2024. In December 2023, numerous government officials and industry experts convened at the New York Forum on Economic...more

7 Enforcement Predictions For US Export Controls, Sanctions

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/14/2023

Within the trade bar there is cautiousness, curiosity and skepticism at the numerous pronouncements signaling greater enforcement of export controls and sanctions by the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Office of Foreign...more

International Trade Enforcement Roundup – November 2023 Update

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 12/8/2023

You are reading the November 2023 Update of the Bass, Berry & Sims Enforcement Roundup, where we bring notable enforcement actions, policy changes, interesting news articles, and a bit of our insight to your inbox. ...more

Voluntary Self-Disclosure: Is the Value Self-Evident?

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 8/4/2023

How should companies think about DOJ, BIS and OFAC voluntary disclosure in the wake of the DOJ’s massive investment in sanctions and export control enforcement? The DOJ, BIS and OFAC released a joint compliance note...more

Compliance measures to address sanctions enforcement: ‘the new FCPA’

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 7/12/2022

In line with the Biden administration’s declaration last year that anticorruption is a “core United States national security interest,” sanctions evasion enforcement rapidly has become a core priority for the Department of...more

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for April 2022

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 5/18/2022

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to...more

Corporate Governance 2021 Year in Review (and a First Look at 2022)

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 1/6/2022

2021 was a busy year for corporate governance matters, with new legislation passed early in the year and new enforcement priorities emerging under the Biden administration. Kramer Levin lawyers published numerous articles...more

The United States Strategy on Countering Corruption: Digging into the Anti-Corruption Initiatives (Part III of III)

The Volkov Law Group on 12/16/2021

The new United States Strategy on Countering Corruption includes several important statements of interest to legal and compliance professionals. ...more

White House Releases Sweeping U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/15/2021

Last week, the Biden Administration unveiled a sweeping “whole-of-government approach” to combating corruption. Identifying corruption as a “cancer within the body of societies—a disease that eats at the public trust and the...more

President Biden’s Multiagency Countering Corruption Strategy Signals Increased Enforcement, Potentially Significant Expansion of...

McDermott Will & Emery on 12/8/2021

On December 6, 2021, the Biden administration unveiled its “Strategy on Countering Corruption” (Strategy), which includes far more detailed guidance on how the administration plans to fund, implement and enforce US President...more

Administration's Anti-Corruption Efforts Likely to Yield Greater FCPA Enforcement in Latin America and Beyond

Womble Bond Dickinson on 8/25/2021

On June 3 of this year, the Biden Administration made plain its commitment to fighting corruption around the world, releasing a document identifying the fight against corruption “as an economic and national security priority”...more

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