Last month, a D.C. federal judge ordered the Department of Justice to turn over the names of prospective monitors nominated to oversee the corporate compliance programs of fifteen companies found to be in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).  

On February 21, 2018, in Class v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that a defendant who pleads guilty can still raise on appeal any constitutional claim that does not depend on challenging his or her "factual guilt."  

Perhaps no part of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank") has garnered as much attention as its whistleblower provisions, which pay corporate whistleblowers bounties under some circumstances, and prevent employers from retaliating against whistleblowing employees.

There will be little debate that this has been a bad day for the state-sanctioned (and regulated) marijuana industry.  

As cybersecurity concerns move more companies to batten down employee use of external email accounts and other websites through blocking software and other measures, the DOJ's recently issued FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy—now

On December 5, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order awarding more than $4.1 million to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided original information to the agency concerning a widespread, multi-year securities-law violation.  

The DOJ recently took another step to encourage corporate self-disclosure for FCPA violations through the announcement of a new FCPA Enforcement Policy based on the eighteen month FCPA Pilot Program.  

In a move that will have commodities traders on high alert, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Michael Coscia, who was sentenced to three years in prison after a federal jury found the former trader guilty of spoofing and commodities fraud. 

Since 2010, the SEC has abided by the Sixth Circuit's decision in United States v. Warshak, and has not subpoenaed emails of an individual from third party service providers.   

In granting a petition to review the Ninth Circuit's decision in Somers v.

In an unprecedented move on June 14, 2017, Michigan's Attorney General, Bill Schuette, charged five state officials with involuntary manslaughter, alleging that each had failed to address the city of Flint's contaminated water issue that they knew was connected to the poisoning deaths of 12 individuals.

At the annual Food Safety Summit in Rosemont, Illinois, the Department of Justice's increased focus on food safety enforcement was a key topic of discussion. 

A Ninth Circuit panel recently issued a decision in United States v. Olson, affirming the conviction of the former Alaska executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ("USDA") Farm Service Agency for misprision of felony under 18 U.S.C. § 4. 

This week the Supreme Court trimmed the SEC's power to seek disgorgement of unlawful gains by securities law violators by unanimously holding in Kokesh v.

In a controversial ruling, London's High Court has held that interview notes and other documents created by outside legal counsel and forensic accountants as part of an internal investigation into foreign bribery allegations are not protected by the legal professional privilege.