Deputy Attorney General said he anticipates policy changes
"in the near future" and suggested emphasis on individual
accountability.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) may soon announce changes to
its policies for prosecuting white-collar crime. During a
question-and-answer session at the Heritage Foundation on September
14, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said that the federal
government's policy on prosecuting corporate crime is
undergoing a "routine" review, and noted that he
anticipates "some change to the policy" and to
"corporate fraud principles" to be announced "in the
near future." His comments send a strong signal that the DOJ
is considering changes to the current policy, which was laid out in
a 2008 memorandum issued by former Acting Attorney General Mark
Filip, and updated in September 2015 by former Deputy Attorney
General Sally Yates (The Yates Memo), both of which are
memorialized in changes to the U.S. Attorney's Manual. (Title
9, Chapter 28.)
