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Earlier this month, Assistant Attorney General Tony West of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) gave a speech at the Twelfth Annual Pharmaceutical Regulatory and Compliance Congress in Washington, D.C.

In the closely watched trial of "U.S. v. Lindsey Manufacturing Co.", a federal jury has found the defendants guilty on all counts of violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA").

The U.S. Sentencing Commission, which establishes criminal sentencing policies and practices for U.S. federal courts, has voted unanimously to rescind a controversial sentencing guideline that purports to condition leniency in sentencing on a business’s waiver of attorney-client privilege.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently held that the Department of Justice violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to due process and to legal representation when it pressured accounting giant KPMG to withhold payment of defense costs of current or former employees who were under investigation.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco began Day Two of the ABA's White Collar Crime Conference with a bang by unveiling a new DOJ whistleblower pilot program.

The inevitable class action lawsuits followed, and the companies ultimately ponied up nearly $1 billion to settle them.

The Eastern District of Texas denied Neeraj Jindal's and John Rodgers' motions to dismiss the Department of Justice's ("DOJ") first-ever criminal indictment for wage-fixing.

On February 22, 2023, United States Attorneys for the Southern and Eastern District of New York announced a new, nationwide United States Attorneys' Offices Voluntary Self-Disclosure...

In a major speech delivered on September 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco added important substance and details to Department of Justice policies aimed...

Colleen Conry, Ropes & Gray government enforcement partner, provides insights on what to expect with enforcement activity under the Trump administration and a Jeff Sessions led Department of Justice.

Following the Department of Justice's February 21, 2012, decision to dismiss remaining charges against defendants in the so-called "African sting" case, some commentators quickly hailed the collapse of the prosecutions as marking the end of the department's aggressive Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prosecution of individuals.

This week a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rendered a guilty verdict against the former SAC portfolio manager on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud in the case of United States v. Martoma.

Last week, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida sentenced Joel Esquenazi, the former president of Miami-based Terra Telecommunications Corp., to an unprecedented 15 years in prison.

On April 5, 2016, in a memorandum entitled Fraud Section's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Plan and Guidance, the DOJ's Fraud Section unveiled an initiative to encourage voluntary self-reporting in FCPA cases.

On August 7, 2007, a jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. ("Brocade"), guilty of securities fraud and conspiracy for backdating stock options granted to Brocade employees.

As a regional center or EB-5 project sponsor, you need to ensure you know not only your customer, but also your marketing team abroad.

On August 24, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ("Second Circuit"), in U.S. v. Hoskins, affirmed a lower Court's ruling that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") does not apply to non-resident foreign nationals unless they were either physically present in the United States or acting as agents of a U.S. entity when they committed their crimes.

Last month, in what is known as the "Yates Memo," the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) set a new course on "Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing" identifying six "keys steps" in its prosecutions.