Daily Compliance News: May 29, 2025, The 0 – 3 Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 24, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 22, 2025, The Trump and Dump Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 19, 2025, The Definition of Corruption Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 16, 2025, The Ethics Nightmare Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 69 - Human Intelligence vs. Machine Judgment with Nigel Morris-Cotterill and Patrick Dransfield
Compliance into the Weeds: Leaving on a (Qatari) Jet Plane
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 10, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 8, 2025, The $1MM for a Pardon Edition
Fraud, the silent epidemic
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 51 – The Compliance Week at 20 Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 28, 2025, The Santos Sobs Edition
Compliance into the Weeds: The Uncertain Future of Compliance Monitors under the Trump Administration
Elder Financial Exploitation
Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2025, The Whistleblowers Awarded Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Great Women in Compliance: Roundtable on The Future of Financial Crime Prevention
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 58 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: IRS Investigations
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 48 – The March Madness Edition
A Significant Shift in White Collar Criminal Enforcement - The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has unveiled a comprehensive plan for its white-collar crime enforcement strategy, laying out the “high-impact” areas where...more
On May 12, 2025, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division issued a much-anticipated memorandum outlining its enforcement priorities and policies for prosecuting corporate and white-collar crimes. The memorandum,...more
The Trump administration remains focused on countering Mexican cartels and other Latin American transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). Since designating eight TCOs as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), the...more
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed its first indictment against a foreign national for providing material support to a Mexican drug cartel that the current administration recently designated a foreign...more
On May 12, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division announced significant changes in its policies on investigating and prosecuting white collar crime, including a shift in focus toward several areas deemed to...more
Key Takeaways - DOJ Criminal Division will prioritize enforcement in key areas, including health care fraud, trade and customs violations and national security-related financial crimes....more
Many have speculated as to how white-collar enforcement may change during President Trump’s second term. A recent memorandum by the Head of the Department of Justice’s (“Department”) Criminal Division, Matthew R. Galeotti,...more
On May 12, DOJ’s Criminal Division head, Matthew G. Galeotti, issued a memo to all Criminal Division personnel, entitled “Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against White-Collar Crime,” to “outline the Criminal...more
On May 12, 2025, the Head of the Criminal Division (the Criminal Division or Division) at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Matthew R. Galeotti, issued key memoranda to Criminal Division personnel on the Division’s new...more
On May 12, 2025, Matthew R. Galeotti — Head of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division — issued an updated enforcement policy detailing the Criminal Division’s priorities for prosecuting corporate and...more
This guidance follows a number of Executive Orders (EOs) and other memoranda from the DOJ, including (1) the February 10, 2025 EO pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for 180 days, pending the...more
The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in coordination with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of...more
Our last post focused on INTERPOL’s newest notice, the Silver Notice. This new tool allows member countries to request information on assets linked to a person’s criminal activities such as fraud, corruption, drug...more
Key Takeaways- • Recent Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designations affecting cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) have equipped the Department of Justice (DOJ) with a powerful source of authority...more
Recently, the Deputy Attorney General for the DOJ released a memo that outlined a new policy direction for the DOJ regarding the enforcement of laws related to digital assets. The memo emphasized ending the previous...more
The award-winning Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into a compliance-related topic, literally going into the weeds to explore a subject more fully. Are you looking for some...more
In a significant policy shift, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum titled “Ending Regulation By Prosecution,” on April 7, 2025, signaling a change in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) approach to digital...more
On April 7, in a significant policy shift, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced via the release of a memorandum that it will no longer pursue criminal enforcement actions that effectively impose regulatory...more
In a significant shift in enforcement strategy, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), effective immediately. According to the April 7 memo announcing the decision,...more
Despite the Trump administration’s generally favorable stance toward cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation, virtual asset services providers (VASPs) must remain vigilant in complying with anti-money laundering (AML)...more
We have written previously about the new administration’s significant shifts in its approach to criminal enforcement and prosecution of money laundering cases. Specifically, we wrote about shifts at the U.S. Department of...more
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that initiates the process of designating certain drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The executive order is primarily focused on...more
Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters...more
The U.S. and China have tentatively [maybe?] agreed that a first phase of a trade agreement “would roll back a portion of the tariffs placed on each other’s products, a significant step toward defusing tensions between the...more
On July 11, 2018, pursuant to a Presidential Executive Order, the Department of Justice announced the formation of a new multi-agency task force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud that will focus on combating consumer and...more