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Part One of this article examines key actions brought by U.S. regulators against compliance officers in 2017 based on their failures to ensure that their firms maintain effective compliance and AML programs.
In May 2014, Andrew Ceresney, then-Director of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in his keynote address at Compliance Week 2014, stated, “ …. legal and compliance officers who perform their responsibilities diligently, in good faith, and in compliance with the law are our partners and need not fear enforcement action.” Andrew Ceresney, Director of Division of Enforcement, SEC, Keynote Address at Compliance Week 2014 (May 20, 2014). In the same speech, however, Ceresney articulated the circumstances under which the SEC would bring actions against compliance officers, personally: “[W]hen the [SEC] believes … compliance personnel have affirmatively participated in the misconduct, when they have helped mislead regulators, or when they have clear responsibility to implement compliance programs or policies and wholly failed to carry out that responsibility.” Id.
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Decoding DOJ’s New ‘Justice AI’ Initiative
By James D. Gatta, Allan J. Medina and Ian Q. Rogers
The DOJ is likely to face many practical challenges and novel issues as it begins coding its own algorithm for AI-related enforcement. This article briefly examines three areas of AI-related enforcement where such practical challenges and novel issues may arise.
The FTC and DOJ’s New Guidelines Promise Sharper Scrutiny of Mergers
By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz
From loosened structural presumptions to unconventional theories of harm such as “ecosystem competition” to consideration of a merger’s effects on outside markets, we review some of the most noteworthy changes in the new Guidelines.
Supreme Court Set to Decide On Competing Interpretations of Federal Corruption Statute
By Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack
In this article, we describe the competing interpretations of Section 666 and comment on the implications of a Supreme Court decision in United States v. Snyder, where it will decide whether the law criminalizes “gratuities,” and not simply “bribes,” given to state and local officials.
The Role of the SEC In Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement
By Jay Dubow, Joanna Cline and Milica Krnjaja
The SEC's cryptocurrency-related actions reached a new high in 2023, jumping more than 50% when compared to 2022. We expect the SEC’s enforcement efforts in this area to continue at a high pace in 2024, even though whether or not cryptocurrency should be classified as a security or something else remains uncertain.