Criminal Enforcement

What Financial Institutions Need to Know about the Market Crisis & Ponzi Schemes

Just like May flowers follow April showers, Ponzi schemes implosions often will follow a market crisis. The last example of this phenomenon was the 2008…

Alison Jimenez March 23, 2020

ACAMS: Preventing Terrorist Financing via Art, Antiquities & Oil

Terrorists can finance their operations in any number of ways — drug trafficking, smuggling (oil, pharmaceuticals, antiquities), counterfeiting, fraud, theft, kidnapping, and extortion. They’re also…

Tad Simons March 05, 2020

Earning Cooperation Credit & the Personal Accountability of Executives: What General Counsel Needs to Know

What do corporate counsel need to know about how self-reporting criminal or civil misconduct before a government discovers the violation? Most importantly, it can result…

Melissa D. Berry February 05, 2020

U.S. Casino Group’s Updates to Anti-Money Laundering Guide Include Mobile Gaming, Sports & Marijuana

A U.S. casino industry group this month updated its guidance on anti-money laundering (AML) obligations to take account of developments that include the expansion of…

Brett Wolf January 02, 2020

Biometrics, e-Identification Use Grows for Customer Onboarding, Security & Antifraud Measures

The use of biometrics and e-identification is growing as financial services firms see the benefits of these technologies for client onboarding, security, and anti-fraud measures.…

Rachel Wolcott December 23, 2019

Cybersecurity Strategy for a Threatening Landscape: Webinar Recap

The regulatory and legal landscape surrounding the use of business data and its security is rapidly becoming more complex. As state and even individual city…

Legal Executive Institute December 06, 2019

Forum Magazine: The Perils of Ransomware Attacks — Good and Better Practice

All things cyber — whether risk, attack, crime or resilience — are never far from the headlines as companies of all shapes and sizes around…

Susannah Hammond November 14, 2019

On the Ground at the ACC Annual Meeting: How General Counsel Can Mitigate Crime and Corruption

PHOENIX — Trade secret theft. Bribery. Corruption. Money laundering. Sounds like a lot to keep on your plate, but for today’s general counsel it’s part…

Gina Jurva November 05, 2019

Criminal Actors Beware: Healthcare Provider Enrollment Rules Just Got More Stringent & Penalties Much Higher

In the fight against healthcare fraud, the federal government is stepping it up — in a major way. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…

Melissa D. Berry October 14, 2019

CWAG Webinar: How Data Can Help Prosecutors Disrupt the Human Trafficking Supply Chain

Data, data and more data — that’s the force multiplier law enforcement needs in order to stay one step ahead of criminal enterprises that engage…

Gina Jurva October 11, 2019

Shedding Some Light on the Dark Web for Legal Researchers

To many people, the Dark Web means the shadowy part of the Internet where drug dealers, gun runners, child pornographers, and white supremacists go to…

Don MacLeod October 08, 2019

Corruption Report 2019: As Regulators Extend Their Reach, Non-Financial Companies Need to Be Ready

“If you think compliance is expensive, try non-compliance.” — former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty For the past two decades, financial crime risk has…

Legal Executive Institute October 04, 2019