Elizabeth Holmes verdict primes DOJ for white-collar crackdown
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Kyle Brasseur2022-01-10T13:00:00
For Department of Justice leadership that recently laid out plans to strengthen their response to corporate crime, the outcome of the Elizabeth Holmes trial is an arrow in the quiver for what might be a new age of white-collar enforcement.
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