Compliance in Focus: Readiness, Investigations and Enforcement

The Department of Justice (DOJ), through the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Southern District of California, recently announced a non-prosecution agreement with a Las Vegas casino, which forfeited over $130 million under the agreement. The agreement settled criminal allegations that the casino conspired with unlicensed money transmitting businesses (MTBs) worldwide…

Over the last several years, enforcement authorities including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have aggressively pursued corporate misconduct, particularly in the areas of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, financial fraud, corruption and sanctions. As a result, public and private companies, as well as their boards,…