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On Dec. 1, 2011, a California federal judge overturned a conviction in the first Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) case against a corporation to proceed to a jury trial, citing "flagrant" prosecutorial misconduct.

On March 10, 2026, DOJ released its first department-wide Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy for corporate criminal matters.

The Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division has unveiled new corporate fraud enforcement priorities targeting health care, government contracts, tax evasion, and trade fraud, while implementing an aggressive, centralized approach to investigations.

The Department of Justice's newly formed National Fraud Enforcement Division has unveiled a comprehensive enforcement strategy targeting five critical areas of fraud, from healthcare schemes to international trade violations. With specialized litigation sections, expanded resources, and a mandate to protect vulnerable Americans, the Division represents a fundamental reorganization of federal fraud prosecution authority and priorities.

New Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco on October 28, 2021, previewed the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) enhanced stance on corporate crime.

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that during the past fiscal year, it recovered over $5.6 billion in criminal and civil fraud cases.

On March 19, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced that in exchange for his substantial cooperation during the agency's enforcement action against AXA Rosenberg Group LLC and its CEO, Barr M. Rosenberg, it would not take enforcement action against an unnamed former AXA Rosenberg senior executive.

A deferred prosecution agreement, or DPA, seems to make a lot of sense for a company under investigation by federal prosecutors.

In case businesses and their managers have not yet taken seriously the admonition that the development, implementation and continuous review of a comprehensive antitrust compliance program is an absolute necessity, perhaps statistics recently released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) will help drive the message home.

High profile schemes perpetrated by Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford, Nevin Shapiro, and others have brought, or at least reinforced, a general understanding of the term "Ponzi scheme" into the public lexicon.

On December 6, 2021, the Biden Administration released the United States Strategy on Countering Corruption ("Strategy"), the first of its kind.

On February 22, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (VSDP) which, effective immediately, applies to all U.S. Attorneys' Offices (USAOs) nationwide with...

Last Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the most recent modifications to its Criminal Division Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP)...

The Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a three-year pilot program aimed at rewarding individuals who report corporate criminal misconduct.

On November 29, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced the Department of Justice's (DOJ) much-anticipated revisions to the September 2015

The U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") has for the first time ever issued a uniform Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy ("CEP")...

During prepared remarks in April 2015, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell discussed corporate cooperation in criminal FCPA investigations.