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ARTICLE · 12 DECEMBER 2018

Yates Memo Softened

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Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced a revision of the "Yates Memo"

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Thomas Zeno
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Gabriel Colwell
Gabriel Colwell

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced a revision of the "Yates Memo" concerning credit a company will receive for cooperating with an investigation.   Instead of an "all or nothing" approach, the new policy permits a company to "identify all individuals substantially involved in or responsible for the misconduct at issue." More about this change can be found at the Anticorruption blog here.

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