5/13/2015: Speaking before the Garrett Institute at Northwestern University’s School of Law, SEC Chair Mary Jo White focused on the past four years of the Commission’s whistleblower award program. Okay, so the topic might not rank high on the list of exciting subject matter, but White’s speech was definitely worth the price of...
5/13/15: There are new sentencing guidelines for fraud cases, becoming effective in November 2015. An article by Randall Eliason published on the Sidebars website explains some of the amendments that will come into play. According to Eliason, several of the amendments focus specifically on the guideline for economic crimes...
4/29/15: The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen), part of the US Treasury, has imposed more stringent requirements on some 700 Miami-area electronics exporters located in Miami, Florida. The action was taken, according to FinCen, to “… shed light on cash transactions that may be tied to...
4/29/15: The US Department of Justice recently announced that its Asset Forfeiture Program has returned more than $4 billion in civilly and criminally forfeited funds to crime victims since fiscal year 2002. Some $723 million has been paid to over 150,000 crime victims in the last three years alone. Now, $4 billion is...
4/14/15: There may be rumblings that the US Department of Justice has eased up on FCPA enforcement, but the Department has made sure there’s no doubt about its enforcement of anticompetitive laws. The last big hit came against Bosch, the 34th company to have pleaded guilty or agreed to plead...
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