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Elections have consequences, and the election of President Trump has resulted in a significant shift in law enforcement priorities. Corporate enforcement activity is at lows not seen in decades, despite an overall increase of almost 40% in federal criminal cases. This is a product of a change in priorities, both in terms of types of offenses and types of offender: more focus on prosecuting individuals instead of entities and more emphasis on drug, violence, and immigration offense rather than business crimes. In a couple of areas where there may be increased business crime enforcement activity reflected in some of the aggregate numbers — Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and crypto currency — the actual cases nonetheless reflect the administration's reordered priorities. So, for the time being, there will be almost unprecedented opportunity to achieve favorable resolutions for corporate clients.
In April 2017, then Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Trevor N. McFadden announced at the ACI Annual FCPA Conference that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was going to be focusing on violent crime, and in September 2018, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo saying that the DOJ has "set clear goals … reducing violent crime, homicides, opioid prescription and drug overdose deaths." These are primarily individual offenses, so by shifting resources to these areas, enforcement activity against corporate entities looks to be reduced.
For those corporate crimes DOJ chose to pursue, it also signaled a more conciliatory approach to resolutions. In March 2018, at the ABA White Collar Crime National Institute Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein declared that the DOJ wanted to "avoid imposing penalties that disproportionately punish innocent employees, shareholders, customers and other stakeholders" and promised that the DOJ would try to stop multiple law enforcement agencies from "piling on" corporate fines. Section 1-12.100 of the United States Attorneys' Manual was updated reflecting this approach.
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