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Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends

The Department of Justice Hammers Away at Corporate Cooperation

For at least the second time in recent weeks, the Justice Department’s criminal division chief delivered lengthy public remarks on what the department expects from companies choosing to cooperate with federal investigators. In a speech at the New York Bar Association’s Fourth Annual White Collar Crime Institute last week, Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell returned… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Financial Institution Regulation, Securities and Commodities

Going Inside for Insider Trading

It is always assumed that sentences in the US for any crime are significantly higher than they are in the UK, but nowhere is this more starkly exemplified than in white collar crime.  The recent sentence of 9 years in prison for Mathew Martoma for insider trading is the latest proof of the truth of… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Financial Institution Regulation

The Long Arm of British Anti-Corruption Laws and the impact on individual defendants

The inference to be made from this court order is that the crime of corruption really doesn't pay, especially for board level directors, and that individuals who get involved in (or permit existing arrangements to continue unabated) international corruption are at risk of being prosecuted in one or more jurisdictions around the world and are liable to lengthy terms of imprisonment as well as very substantial penalties and orders for disgorgement of payments… Continue Reading

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