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ARTICLE · 07 APRIL 2015

White Collar Roundup - April 2015

DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lays Out Department's Initiatives for White-Collar Investigations and Prosecutions

United StatesCriminal Law

DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lays Out Department's Initiatives for White-Collar Investigations and Prosecutions

At the American Bar Association's Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime, Leslie Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), provided insight into the division's focus in the coming year. First, she said that she and her team had been reviewing how decisions regarding declinations, deferred-prosecution agreements (DPAs) and nonprosecution agreements (NPAs) have been made in the past. She said she is committed to bringing more transparency to the process so companies know what benefits they might receive if they self-report criminal conduct. She predicted there would be an uptick in declinations for companies that self-report and fit within the so-called Filip factors regarding prosecuting organizations. Unfortunately, such declinations are not going to be made public by the DOJ. Second, she

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