The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced sweeping changes to its efforts to fight corporate crime, including new guidance regarding individual accountability, voluntary self-disclosure of violations, independent compliance monitors, and ways to strengthen and sharpen a firm’s compliance culture.

In a speech Thursday at New York University’s law school, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco laid out the results of the DOJ’s “top-to-bottom review” of its corporate enforcement efforts geared “to further strengthen how we prioritize and prosecute corporate crime.”

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...