FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco recently stressed the value of BSA data, especially in the virtual currency space, and highlighted the continuing “national security gap” in collecti...
Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski, the head of DOJ’s Criminal Division, recently gave a speech in which he clarified that DOJ will not automatically seek to impose agency lia...
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) modified its Corporate Enforcement Policy to clarify what level of disclosure is expected from companies in the early stages of an investigation. In...
The SEC’s Enforcement Division (the “Division”) released its annual report on November 6. The Division filed 7% more standalone cases in 2019 than it did in 2018, and financial sanc...
On Friday, November 1, 2019, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission, a case that challenges the SEC’s long-held position that it has authorit...
