Both federal agencies are aligning their enforcement priorities with the Administration’s foreign policy goals, signaling heightened scrutiny of cross-border misconduct and increased compliance expectations for multinational organizations and their auditors and advisers.
Companies should mark their calendars now — expect criminal tariff evasion cases in 2026.
Over the past year, the current administration has redefined the False Claims Act from a traditional anti-fraud statute into a highly flexible policy instrument to enforce its core agenda priorities.
The expansion of French parliamentary inquiries, coupled with a persistent climate of suspicion toward U.S. corporate influence, significantly increases the likelihood that international — especially American — companies will face targeted investigations.
Federal enforcement of laws against white-collar crime has significantly receded under the Trump administration, with regulators and prosecutors pulling back from the front-end rules meant to stop money laundering and foreign bribery before it occurs, according to legal experts.
The limits on wire fraud prosecutions are continuing to evolve, with courts pushing back on further narrowing the scope of the wire fraud statute post-Ciminelli and Percoco.
Businesses across all sectors of the economy should be knowledgeable about how best to respond to a Congressional investigation, and ultimately, if the investigatory Committee is not satisfied with voluntary compliance efforts, the options available to them for objecting to a Congressional subpoena.
The written information security plan (WISP) is not just another compliance document, it's a practical roadmap that turns abstract data protection duties into concrete business practices.
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decision to halt substantive review of public company requests to exclude certain shareholder proposals has investor groups concerned their voices will be diminished in U.S. corporate governance.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, in its proposed rule, said that the “broad nature” of BSA and anti-money laundering supervision creates “a risk that BS/AML focused supervisory actions could indirectly address reputation risk.”
