On October 20, DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division announced the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program, which offers individuals an up-front reward of up to $30,000 for tips about...
The first civil penalty under the Outbound Investment Security Program for failure to submit a required notification of an investment into a Chinese artificial intelligence company signal...
As part of the administration’s ongoing “Operation Economic Outcast” against Iran, FinCEN and OFAC took a series of actions targeting the A7 Network, a global network alleged to fac...
In a new memo, DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division laid out its approach to corporate enforcement, identifying four investigative priorities and 10 factors that will drive the Fra...
On September 18, 2026, DOJ announced two revisions to the Justice Manual guidance on False Claims Act enforcement. The revisions limit reliance on sub-regulatory guidance and expand qui t...
New Russia sanctions legislation provides “secondary tariff” authority to target countries most involved in the Russian oil and gas trade (and Russia itself) and codifies and incremen...
As the 2026 midterm elections near, House and Senate Democrats are signaling possible investigative priorities in the event they are successful in taking control of either chamber. This a...
On August 24, 2026, the U.S. government announced an escalation of Iranian sanctions. As part of this action, OFAC suspended five general licenses, newly designated nearly 60 entities and...
On August 13, 2026, DOJ published a memorandum outlining the enforcement priorities of the National Fraud Enforcement Division – the new DOJ component created earlier this year to comba...
On July 17, 2026, Scoular, a Nebraska-based agricultural company, entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with DOJ to resolve a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
