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Jonathan Lopez, recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal [subscription required] regarding the attitude that the Trump administration may take towards financial crime enforcement...

Corporate fraud remains a persistent and potentially damaging threat to companies across industries, sectors, and borders. The risks are substantial and the penalties are daunting.

Robert W. Ray was quoted in the Marketplace article, "Justice Department Changes Tack on White-Collar Crime." Full text can be found in the September 10, 2015, issue, but a synopsis is below.

White Collar & Government Investigations Partner Tim Belevetz discusses SEC administrative proceedings and their increasing use by the SEC's Division of Enforcement.

Milbank Litigation partner Antonia Apps was recently featured in Corporate Crime Reporter for an article titled "Milbank Partner Antonia Apps on Connolly and the Government's Micromanaging of Internal Investigations."

The SEC and the DOJ charged a professional football player and a former analyst at an investment bank with fraud and insider trading.

On Oct. 1, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to the Second Circuit's decision in European Community v. RJR Nabisco, 764 F.3d 129 (2d Cir. 2014), rehearing en banc denied, 783 F.3d 123 (2d Cir. 2015), which held that RICO applies extraterritorially, but only to the extent that a RICO claim is based on predicate acts that apply extraterritorially.

As discussed in Part I of this series on insider trading investigations, hedge funds and other institutional investors rely upon various sources of information in connection with their investment research activities.

In a speech before the New York City Bar Association on October 20, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, warned that a Department of Justice initiative aimed at combating insider trading was in full gear.

The news reports that a London-based futures trader, Navinder Singh Sarao, has been arrested by the British police at the request of the US authorities, to be extradited to America to face charges of market manipulation and wire fraud, brings back memories of the Natwest Three, Gary McKinnon and Christopher Tappin.

When the employee of a company is summoned to appear before an "independent" counsel working for the company, roles are far less clear.

The Recorder discusses the first SEC defeat in 2016, detailing the case led by Heather Tewksbury and Randall Lee.

FINRA recently took formal disciplinary action against a New York-based broker-dealer that is affiliated with a Mexican broker-dealer and with a Mexican bank for inadequate anti-money laundering systems and procedures.

SEC Issues Risk Alert Regarding Advertising Rule Compliance Based on Recent OCIE Examinations

U.S.-based investment management firm Legg Mason Inc. ("Legg Mason") agreed to disgorge over $34 million in profits and prejudgment interest to settle SEC charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA").

On September 10, a Houston psychiatrist became the thirteenth individual convicted in relation to partial hospitalization program (PHP) services fraudulently billed to Medicare

The C-Suite rarely wants to consider, much less worry about, the impacts of criminal conduct on their business.

The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has announced the formation of a new partnership between his office and several federal and state law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute complex financial crimes both in Virginia and throughout the nation.