Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department has removed language stressing the need to prevent racial gerrymandering from the manual used by federal prosecutors,Buzzfeed Newsreported Sunday. Before the section was removed in March, it affirmed that DOJ would support redistricting plans ...
s manual entitledEvaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs(the “Compliance Guidelines”), provides guidance to prosecutors and, indirectly, to corporate compliance professionals regarding the elements and features of a corporate compliance program that federal prosecutors look for during corporate criminal ...
First, Monaco stated that prosecutors would be able to seek increased penalties for criminals who “deliberately misuse AI to make a white-collar crime significantly more serious—for individual and corporate defendants alike.” Referring to AI’s potential to effect “...
with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they're not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail. The IRS, on the other hand,publicly said last monththat it would abandon a controversial
The new guidance confirms that prosecutors are to consider whether (1) the compliance program is well designed (providing a clear message that misconduct is not tolerated; having appropriate policies and procedures to detect and prevent the most likely types of misconduct given the company’s line ...
to the Criminal Division, cooperate with any resulting investigation, and effectively remediate. However, the requirements for companies to receive full credit under the new CEP are stringent, and prosecutors retain significant discretion to determine the form and size of any eventual resolution wi...
Prosecutorial Discretion.While the Guidance provides substantial insight into how certain factual scenarios and statutory terms may be viewed by DOJ and SEC, it makes plain that the publication is not binding on line prosecutors or staff attorneys and creates no new substantive rights for targets or...
For special counsel Smith's part -- through public filings and statements from prosecutors in court, he has repeatedly avoided direct mentions of the November election as influencing his decisionmaking. Instead, he has pointed to the "public's interest" in seeing the charges against Trump quic...
“History has shown that special prosecutors. . .often take an expansive view of their investigative authority,” Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and eight others wrote to Holder. “Despite your assurances that this investigation will be narrow and focused, there is a real risk that today’s announc...
(DOJ) released guidance to federal prosecutors on how to assess a company’s claim that it is unable to pay a merits-based criminal fine or penalty to resolve a criminal investigation. For many years, the DOJ’s Civil Division has employed an inability-to-pay process for resolving civil ...