Steps Your Nonprofit Can Take to Mitigate Fraud Risks - Part 2
Fraud Risks at Nonprofit Organizations - Part 1
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Estate Planning and the Corporate Transparency Act
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 38 - A Blueprint for Compliance: The Fraud Pentagon Theory
FCA Uncovered: Mitigating Risk in the Regulatory Spotlight — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Tackling Credit Push Fraud: Understanding Nacha's Risk Management Package (Part Two) — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - Think You Know Whistleblowers? Think Again.
PilieroMazza Annual Review What DOJ’s Annual FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 6 – Mitigating Class Action Exposure
Compliance into the Weeds: The ACFE 2024 Anti-Fraud Technology Benchmarking Report
AD Nauseam: Cabbage Soup v. Keto Diet: The Evolving FTC and NAD Approach to Post-Holiday Weight Loss Claims
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Defendants Testifying (Poorly), FOMO, and How to Actually Blame Lawyers
Detecting Fraud in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 25 - An Investigative Journalist’s Insight Into the COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 11
JONES DAY TALKS®: Looking for ESG Fraud – CFTC Solicits Carbon Markets Whistleblowers
ChatGPT Risks for Compliance Programs
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Varsity Blues Reversals Turn DOJ Red
Giving Compliance Advice
Crypto Enforcement Actions - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
As we close out this series on the Bre-X mining scandal, the lessons from this notorious case continue to resonate, especially for today’s compliance professionals. The fraud that led to the downfall of Bre-X and the ensuing...more
The Bre-X mining scandal of the 1990s is one of history’s most infamous corporate fraud cases. Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a small Canadian company, falsely reported one of the largest gold deposits ever discovered in Indonesia,...more
In the annals of corporate fraud, few scandals match the magnitude of the Bre-X mining affair. For compliance professionals, the lessons from this incident resonate deeply, not just because of the scale of the deception but...more
Few corporate scandals are still as infamous or devastating as the Bre-X mining scandal. What began as a story of incredible wealth, fueled by the promise of one of the largest gold deposits ever discovered, unraveled into...more
The Federal U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered an Order granting summary judgement for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on July 1, 2024 and ordered $83 million in restitution and...more
On February 21, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit held that a debtor who receives several direct benefits from a loan to an operating company has received “reasonably equivalent value” in exchange...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
With the Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (the "AI Act") entering into force in due course, following its publication in the Official Journal of the EU, there has been an increasing focus of supervisory bodies to provide...more
The Mississippi Securities Division is the closest regulator to the investing public of Mississippi. Among other tasks, they protect investors from fraud and abuse and make sure those licensed securities professionals doing...more
In 2022, for the first time, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a three-year strategy setting out three key themes for promoting positive change, namely: (1) reducing and preventing serious financial harm and...more
On May 15, 2024, the Senate AI Working Group—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM)—issued their long-anticipated Roadmap for Artificial...more
On May 15, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government to discuss the agency’s FY 2025 budget request and ongoing...more
Securities and Exchange Commission. Cryptocurrency regulation. On April 23, 2024, two groups representing the cryptocurrency industry sued SEC over its expanded dealer definition announced earlier this year. The Blockchain...more
...A recent decision in an SEC enforcement action against Coinbase, the largest crypto-asset trading platform in the U.S., provides some long-awaited guidance on a topic that has been the subject of considerable debate in the...more
En febrero de 2024, el Tesoro de los Estados Unidos publicó la Evaluación Nacional de Riesgo de Lavado de Dinero (NMLRA) de 2024, que examina el entorno actual de lavado de dinero e identifica las formas en que los...more
On February 2024, the U.S. Treasury released the 2024 National Money Laundering Risk Assessment (NMLRA) which examines the current money laundering environment and identifies the ways in which criminals and other actors seek...more
On 13 February 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a groundbreaking Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to combat illicit finance and national security threats in the investment adviser sector. The...more
Judge Batten, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, handed down lengthy sentences in the first-of-its-kind criminal trial related to syndicated conservation easements (“SCEs”). On January...more
Amazon to invest in Diamond Sports as part of bankruptcy deal | ABC News - Diamond Sports has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since it filed for protection last March with debt of $8.67 billion. Amazon will partner...more
President Biden’s recent executive order (EO) to manage risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) is intended to establish new standards governing AI safety, security, and privacy concerns while promoting innovation...more
A franchisee, Functional HIIT Fitness, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan against a franchisor, F45 Training Incorporated, and five of its officers: Adam Gilchrist, Robert Deutsch, Marc...more
Arkansas Men Convicted in $18 Million Global Investment Fraud Conspiracy - A federal jury in the Western District of Arkansas convicted four men of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money...more
In a civil suit filed in Oregon state court in June 2023, an Oregon county is suing more than a dozen large oil, gas and coal companies, seeking more than $50 million in damages, in connection with a 2021 “heat dome” and...more
Arkansas AG Tim Griffin and the FTC settled with BINT Operations LLC and two of its officers (collectively, “BINT”) to resolve allegations that the company violated federal and state consumer protection laws by running a...more