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Recent Anti-Corruption Updates

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Two recent court Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases, a significant amendment to the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), and the new pilot whistleblower rewards program show that Anti-Corruption Enforcement...more

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Life Sciences Company Escapes Criminal Charges for Employee’s Illegal Export Scheme

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Sigma-Aldrich, Inc., d/b/a MilliporeSigma (“MilliporeSigma”), a U.S. life sciences company based in Massachusetts, escaped criminal charges for export control violations, despite a former sales person’s scheme to illegally...more

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False Claims Act Insights - Railroaded! How to Approach the Twin Tracks of Parallel Proceedings

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Host Jonathan Porter is joined by Troy Clark, Director and Corporate Counsel with Wellstar Health System, to discuss the peculiarities and difficulties of tackling parallel proceedings, that is, investigations and/or...more

Troutman Pepper

FCA Uncovered: Mitigating Risk in the Regulatory Spotlight — Regulatory Oversight Podcast

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In the latest episode of Regulatory Oversight, Troutman Pepper Partner Amy Williams welcomes Jenelle Beavers and Rob Sayegh from Alvarez & Marsal. Jenelle serves as a managing director and Rob as a senior director of A&M’s...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Criminal Division’s new voluntary self-disclosure program still uncertain and risky

On April 15, 2024, the Department of Justice released its “Criminal Division’s Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosures for Individuals.” Similar in many ways to programs introduced earlier this year by the U.S. Attorney’s...more

Woods Rogers

EPA’s Landmark Civil-Criminal Enforcement Policy (Part I)

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Last week, the EPA announced a landmark policy change regarding the intersection and overlap of criminal and civil investigations/enforcement actions. EPA’s new policy represents one of the most dramatic and important changes...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The defense of involvement — as opposed to advice — of counsel

In its traditional form, the advice of counsel defense can validate conduct that might otherwise be considered criminal. But invocation carries a steep cost: The defendant must waive his privilege with the lawyer who gave the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

[Webinar] What To Do When the Government Comes Knocking - February 29th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Join John Heitmann, and Joshua Guyan as they welcome partners Matt Austin, Bart Daniel, and Adam Safwat, three seasoned defense attorneys who use their experience leading defense teams through complex federal investigations....more

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New SFO Pre-Investigation Powers Come into Force

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On 15 January 2024, legislation came into force that enhances the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) compulsory information-gathering powers and streamlines the investigative process whilst imposing fresh obligations on companies...more

Polsinelli

CPA gets 25 years for Promoting Conservation Easement Deductions

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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

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

The Meaning of Corruption (Revisited): United States v. Robertson and Further Considerations for White Collar Practitioners from...

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A previous post examined interpretations of the statutory term “corruptly” in case law arising from prosecutions of participants in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. A significant new case from the D.C. Circuit, United...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 11th Annual Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement - January 23rd - 24th, New York, NY

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 11th Annual Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement returns for another exciting year for lively discussions on FCA enforcement including the ramifications of two...more

A&O Shearman

Last remaining counts of insider trading case to be dismissed - Robert Olan fully exonerated

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This week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to dismiss the last remaining counts of an insider trading case they charged against Robert Olan and others in 2017. After a split verdict at trial, multiple appeals, a...more

Polsinelli

Slogans and Insults: Fisher Defendants Respond to the Government’s Novel Conservation Easement Case

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Last week, the first federal criminal trial related to syndicated conservation easement (“SCE”) deals began with impaneling the jury and opening statements. Each of the Fisher defendants on trial, Jack Fisher, James Sinnott,...more

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Government Asserts the Defendants Lied and Cheated the IRS out of over $1.3 Billion: The Government’s Opening Statement of the...

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The first criminal prosecution of syndicated conservation easement promoters began on July 18, 2023, with the government laying out its case against defendants Jack Fisher, James Sinnott, and Clayton Weibel.  A Department of...more

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First Criminal Syndicated Conservation Easement Trial Begins this Week

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Polsinelli’s Government Investigations and Tax attorneys continue to follow the well-known Fisher case, the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) first criminal indictment related to syndicated conservation easements. The trial is...more

Nossaman LLP

Compliance Notes - Vol. 4, Issue 23

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Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more

Polsinelli

Appraiser Pleads Guilty to Fraud in Syndicated Conservation Easement Case

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Polsinelli’s Government Investigations and Tax attorneys continue to follow the well-known Fisher case, the Department of Justice’s ("DOJ") first criminal indictment related to syndicated conservation easements. Walter...more

Baker Donelson

Supreme Court Again Restricts Honest-Services Fraud

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On May 11, 2023, in Percoco v. United States, 598 U.S. ___ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court once again reined in an expansive public corruption prosecution brought by the Department of Justice by overturning a wire fraud...more

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Dialysis & Nephrology Digest - April 2023

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ME trial reminiscent of DaVita anti-poaching case that also ended in acquittal; DOJ strategy questioned - In Apr. 2022, juries in TX and CO acquitted healthcare companies charged by the DOJ’s Antitrust Division. In the CO...more

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Carrie Tolstedt, former Wells Fargo Community Banking Head, Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay a $17 Million Fine for Obstruction of...

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If there ever is an example of a rotten corporate culture, Wells Fargo sits at the head of the class.  Since Wells Fargo’s sales pressure scandal, Wells Fargo has continued to suffer from a string of scandals and misconduct. ...more

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Annual ABA White Collar Conference Brings Additional Updates to DOJ Corporate Enforcement Policy

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Last week at the American Bar Association’s annual National Institute on White Collar Crime in Miami, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite highlighted several new facets of the...more

Alston & Bird

$19 Million Criminal Penalty Levied Against Food Manufacturer Serves as a Stark Reminder of the Importance of Food Safety...

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A salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds brought the largest criminal penalty ever imposed following a criminal conviction in a food safety case. Our Food & Beverage and White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations...more

Venable LLP

Spoliation and Failure to Disclose: What Gets Swept Under the Rug in FTC Investigations Lands in a Dangerous Pit

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Once a company or individual learns they are a target of a Federal Trade Commission investigation, they need to quickly make a series of decisions, then take action. After being notified that the FTC has begun an...more

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The Justice Insiders Podcast: Crime & Punishment - Part III

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Host Gregg N. Sofer is joined by two special guests: a former federal prosecutor and a person sentenced to federal prison as a result of one of his mortgage fraud investigations. Today’s episode, the last in a three-part...more

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