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A bank agreed to pay $100 million to settle charges related to U.S. Dollar LIBOR ("USD LIBOR") manipulation. The matter was investigated by a working group ...

A former managing director of a bank agreed to pay $350,000 to settle CFTC charges for illegally "mismarking" swap valuations in an effort to hide significant trading losses.

As part of its proposed 2012 fiscal year budget, the United States Treasury Department intends to implement cost-cutting measures that would limit access to "Project Gateway," the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s ("FinCEN") Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") real-time data access system.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) long has required entities seeking credit for cooperating with its investigations to provide what it terms "full and truthful" cooperation.

On March 24, 2010, as a result of a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2005, a federal district court judge in the Middle District of Tennessee found that Renal Care Group (RCG), Renal Care Group Supply Company (RCGSC), and their successor-in-interest Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. (Fresenius), (collectively the defendants), had submitted claims for reimbursement to Medicare and that they must return more than $19.3 million of those funds to the government.

It's Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we've been monitoring.

Corporations were given a significant incentive to revisit their compliance programs this week, as the U.S. Sentencing Commission (the Commission) made public a proposed policy change that would offer substantial benefits to corporate defendants who could demonstrate that they have an adequately designed and deployed program for combating white collar crime.

On November 15, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to Petitioner Halliburton Company ("Halliburton") in the case entitled Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc., f/k/a Archdiocese of Milwaukee Supporting Fund, Inc. Halliburton appeals to the Supreme Court from a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming the certification of a class in a securities fraud class action and rejecting Halliburton’s attempt to introduce price impa

The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, on February 19, 2008, ruled that former officers and directors of a public corporation are entitled to access to memoranda containing legal advice to the corporation.

Small businesses lose more than $4.7 billion annually to toll pumping, an elaborate cyber-scam in which hackers break into a company's phone system, then ring up international premium rate calls.

On January 22, the DOJ Antitrust Division issued a press release detailing the results of its criminal antitrust enforcement program for fiscal year 2014 (which ended September 30, 2014).

Written by former federal prosecutors and experienced defense attorneys across the Firm's 37 offices, this guidebook will serve as reference materials for corporate clients facing key decisions on how and when to perform internal investigations.

Earlier this month, we discussed a memorandum issued by Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

On October 16, a federal jury in Dallas, Texas rejected the SEC's claims that Mark Cuban engaged in insider trading.

The guidance, issued Wednesday, gives prosecutors six directives targeted at increasing prosecutions against individuals...

On Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Freeman Health System (Freeman) in Joplin, Missouri, had agreed to pay $9.3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law by contracting with physicians to provide incentive pay based on referrals.

On May 9, 2012, the SEC announced an enforcement action against Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd.