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The U.S. Justice Department is creating a national cryptocurrency enforcement team to tackle investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of cryptocurrency and to recover the illicit proceeds from these crimes, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Wednesday. The creation of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, which would be under the supervision of Assistant Attorney General […]
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Lisa Monaco to be deputy attorney general, putting a seasoned national-security official in charge of the Justice Department’s day-to-day operations as it confronts a rise in domestic extremism and threats from abroad. Ms. Monaco, 53 years old, was confirmed in a 98-2 vote, with Democrats and Republicans alike praising her […]
Eisinger, who borrows for his title Comey’s moderately profane appellation, details an unmistakable decline in the justice department’s willingness and ability to prosecute corporate crime. For the four years 2012-2015, white-collar cases made up just 10 per cent of the DoJ’s caseload — roughly one-half the share two decades earlier. “The justice system is broken,” […]
The DOJ Dec. 9 announced a new attorney position in its Fraud Section in which the attorney will work two years in London. The attorney will spend the first year with the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, and the second year with the U.K. Serious Fraud Office. After that, the attorney will return to Washington, D.C., […]
Let’s take a trip way, way back in time. So far back you may hardly remember where you were or what you were doing. The year was 2007, April to be precise, and the DOJ and SEC announced (here and here) the “largest combined sanction ever imposed in an FCPA case.” The aggregate settlement amount? […]
Chesapeake Energy Corp said it received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking information on the accounting methodology for the acquisition and classification of oil and gas properties. via Chesapeake receives DoJ subpoena on accounting for asset purchase | Reuters
The current head of the DOJ’s FCPA unit, Patrick Stokes, has been named Senior Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. Daniel S. Kahn, Assistant Chief of the FCPA unit since 2013, will now serve as Acting Head of the FCPA unit. via DOJ’s Patrick Stokes promoted, Daniel Kahn named acting head of FCPA […]
The Justice Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, along with 49 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia’s attorney general, have reached a $470 million agreement with HSBC Bank USA NA and its affiliates (collectively, HSBC) to address mortgage origination, servicing and foreclosure abuses. via […]
During remarks at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Compliance and Legal Society New York Regional Seminar, Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, offered some insight about the newly established compliance counsel and what metrics the compliance counsel will use to assess compliance programs. via Caldwell Explains New Compliance […]
The Department of Justice has released a new policy intended to further the Department’s effort to hold individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing. The policy was laid out in a September 9, 2015 memorandum authored by Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates. The new policy is more than a clarification of existing practices; it constitutes the […]