News & Analysis as of

Fraud Fines Compliance

Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
The Volkov Law Group

DOJ Awards Declination to Proterial Cable America for Fraud — Proterial Pays $15.1 Million in Disgorgement

The Volkov Law Group on

DOJ is pushing hard for voluntary disclosures and urging companies to take advantage  of its Voluntary Disclosure Program.  The carrot is significant — a declination in exchange for cooperation, remediation and disgorgement....more

ArentFox Schiff

Investigations Newsletter: Binance to Pay Historic $4 Billion Fine

ArentFox Schiff on

Binance to Pay Historic $4 Billion Fine - Binance Holdings Limited, the operator of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, agreed to pay $4.3 billion to resolve allegations that it violated the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Cryptocurrency: In the Face of Increased Enforcement, Be Prepared

Harris Beach PLLC on

This summer was a busy one for cryptocurrency regulators, with aggressive actions potentially signaling an increase in consumer protection compliance activity. In August alone, the New York Department of Financial Services...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Sculptor Capital Management Inc. agrees to pay fine to resolve a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case

Compliance Today (October 2020) - In a case that has remained unresolved for almost a decade, Sculptor Capital Management Inc., formerly Och-Ziff Capital Management, agreed to pay investors in a Congolese mine, who were...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

Food supply chains under increasing scrutiny

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 20 (Oct. 24, 2019) - The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a monetary penalty for “greenwashing” last month, the first such penalty imposed on a company for falsely...more

Hanzo

Hanzo's 2018 FINRA AND SEC Regulatory Compliance Year in Review

Hanzo on

From Elon Musk’s tweets to Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled’s promotion of cryptocurrencies, 2018 was, to say the least, an interesting year in regulatory enforcement news. Even if all you do is win, win, win, no matter what,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Godspeed to John Glenn and Failures at Deloitte

Last week, I paid tribute to Greg Lake. It turned out that the first full week of December was the final week for several important, if not seminal, figures. So this week I will pay homage to those who have left us, today I...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

False Claim Act: 2013 Year in Review

Last year continued the trend of robust False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and proliferating qui tam lawsuits brought by whistleblowers on behalf of the United States. In 2012, DOJ...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Supermarket To The World – The ADM FCPA Enforcement Action

Last week, it was announced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it had settled an enforcement action with Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM). The DOJ resolved a criminal...more

9 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide