White Collar Roundup - April 2018

Deputy Attorney General Sets the Stage for White Collar Crime Enforcement

On the last day of the American Bar Association's National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein described some of the white collar crime priorities of the Department of Justice in the coming year. After highlighting recent prosecutions for Medicare and Medicaid fraud, military procurement fraud, and illegal offshore tax shelters, Rosenstein intimated that the DOJ will have "more such cases in the future." He also lauded the work of the Environmental Crimes Unit, which has prosecuted "perpetrators of fraudulent transactions involving tax credits for renewable fuels." And he stressed that the DOJ's "white collar enforcement is also becoming smarter and more efficient thanks to the use of technology," including the use of "sophisticated data analytics in a number of the Department's major health care fraud cases." He said the DOJ is "using analytics to