Criminal Law / Business Crimes

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Dec
29
2015
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Validity of False Claims Act’s Implied Certification Theory Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Dec
28
2015
False Claims Act Retaliation Decisions Calls “Duty Speech” Heightened Pleading Standard into Question Zuckerman Law
Dec
22
2015
Department of Justice Expands Worker Endangerment Initiative Bracewell LLP
Dec
22
2015
US Departments of Justice and Labor To Increase Criminal Prosecutions of Worker Safety Laws Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
22
2015
DOJ Announces Criminal OSHA Prosecutions May Also Include Felony Environmental Crimes Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Dec
21
2015
Claims Against Individuals Fail in Northern District of Illinois McDermott Will & Emery
Dec
21
2015
Greater Emphasis On Corporate Compliance Programs Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
19
2015
U.S. Sanctions Mexican Executive, Airline, and Newspaper Tied to Drug Trafficking Organization Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
18
2015
Pricing Algorithms and the Digital “Smoke-Filled Room” Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
18
2015
Supreme Court to Review "Implied Certification" Theory Under the False Claims Act Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Dec
18
2015
Criminal Worker Safety Prosecutions Shifted to DOJ's Environmental Crimes Section Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Dec
18
2015
Martin Shkreli Arrested for Alleged Securities Fraud Scheme Stark & Stark
Dec
18
2015
Martin Shkreli, Criminal Forfeiture, and Wu-Tang Clan: Securities Fraud Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Dec
17
2015
Tennessee District Court Limits Scope of Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Claim Proskauer Rose LLP
Dec
17
2015
Medicare Fraud Strike Force Indicts Chicago-area Home Health Agency Owner Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Dec
17
2015
West Virginia Law Enforcement Agencies Announce “Data-Driven” Approach to Thwart Health Care Fraud Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Dec
16
2015
Health Care Qui Tam Update Recently Unsealed Whistleblower Cases for December 2015 Mintz
Dec
15
2015
Monthly China Anti-Bribery Update Report — November 2015 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
15
2015
Supreme Implications: High Court to Decide Fate of “Implied False Certification” Theory Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
14
2015
Two Recent Announcements Regarding False Claims Act Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered
Dec
14
2015
DOJ Boasts About $3.5 Billion in Recoveries from False Claims Act Cases in FY 2015 McDermott Will & Emery
Dec
14
2015
Second Circuit Adopts Narrow Construction of Federal Computer Fraud Statute, Joins Circuit Split Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
11
2015
Federal Felony Convictions and Delinquent Taxes Must be Reported Under New FAR Rule Covington & Burling LLP
Dec
11
2015
Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. IV — Rank-and-File Employees [VIDEO] Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Dec
10
2015
Supreme Court Decision Might Foreshadow Expansion of the Qualified Immunity Defense in Excessive Force Cases Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Dec
10
2015
Qualified Immunity and Deadly Car Chases: Is Pendulum Heading Other Way? Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Dec
10
2015
Best Practices to Avoid Common FCPA Violations: Gifts, Meals, and Entertainment Foley & Lardner LLP
Dec
9
2015
SEC Steps Up Investigations of Political Intelligence Firms for Insider Trading Foley & Lardner LLP
Dec
9
2015
Second Circuit Overturns Fraud Convictions in United States v. Litvak Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dec
9
2015
Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria Finally Stepping Up Anti-Corruption Efforts Covington & Burling LLP
Dec
9
2015
FCA Recoveries from False Claims Act Cases in FY 2015 Down from FY 2014’s Record $5.7 Billion Polsinelli PC
Dec
8
2015
Twenty-Year Ascendancy of Health Care Qui Tam Litigation in Five Simple Graphs Mintz
Dec
8
2015
Justice Department Announces Recovery Of Over $3.5 Billion From False Claims Act Cases In Fiscal Year 2015 Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
8
2015
DOJ Recovers $3.5 Billion in False Claims Act Cases in FY2015 and Pays Record Amount to Qui Tam Relators Mintz
Dec
7
2015
Insider Trading in Futures; Newer, Tougher AML Requirements; New CCO Obligations; Possible Bitcoin Fraud - Bridging the Weeks: November 23 – December 7, 2015 [VIDEO] Katten
Dec
7
2015
Defendant’s Objectively Reasonable Interpretation of Ambiguous Regulations Not Subject to FCA Liability Polsinelli PC
Dec
7
2015
UK Serious Fraud Office Reaches Agreement with Standard Bank Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dec
2
2015
UK Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Sign of Things to Come? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
2
2015
Supreme Court May Finally Weigh In On Implied False Certification Liability Polsinelli PC
Dec
1
2015
House Advances Cyber Crime Bill Polsinelli PC
Nov
24
2015
Corruption and the Closing Table: How Much Diligence is Due? Polsinelli PC
Nov
24
2015
DOJ Fraud Section Retains New Compliance Counsel Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Nov
24
2015
UK Government Makes U-turn on Reform of Corporate Criminal Liability Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
23
2015
Federal Prisoner Release: First Step of More Ambitious Plan Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Nov
21
2015
U.S. Department of Justice Announces Geoffrey Shank as New Washington Director of INTERPOL Holland & Hart LLP
Nov
18
2015
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Government can Freeze a Defendant’s Lawful Assets Pre-Conviction Jackson Lewis P.C.
Nov
13
2015
Export Control Reform and Deregulation Lead Federal Prosecutors to Get Creative in Prosecuting Schemes to Export Military Technology to Potential Foreign Adversaries Holland & Hart LLP
Nov
11
2015
Fourth Circuit Court to Rehear Whether Government May Compel Disclosure of Cell Phone Location Information Without a Warrant Jackson Lewis P.C.
Nov
10
2015
Monthly China Anti-Bribery Update Report — October 2015 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
10
2015
Northern District of Illinois Expands Definition of Protected Activity Under Illinois Whistleblower Act Proskauer Rose LLP
 

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