- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2023-07-18T19:43:00
The head of the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to depart the agency after a tenure highlighted by multiple policy changes intended to empower corporate chief compliance officers.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. will step down by the end of the month, a spokesman for the DOJ confirmed. Multiple media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, reported the impending departure of Polite for a planned return to a legal career.
Polite formerly worked at Morgan Lewis prior to joining the DOJ in 2021.
2023-08-07T17:37:00Z By Jeff Dale
Sidley Austin announced the appointment of Kenneth Polite Jr., former head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, as a partner and co-lead of the law firm’s white-collar government litigation and investigations practice.
2023-05-25T19:28:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice has seen an uptick in self-reported potential misconduct by corporations since it increased incentives for voluntary disclosure, according to Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr.
2023-05-16T19:58:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Glenn Leon, head of the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section, said “compliance is a very big area of focus” for the agency, during a fireside chat at Compliance Week’s 2023 National Conference.
2025-06-26T20:22:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In another sign of President Donald Trump’s focus on cryptocurrency, the head of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to create proposals to consider crypto assets for a single-family home mortgage.
2025-06-24T17:21:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Four years after Brexit, the U.K. and EU announced a “reset” that will ease barriers to importing and exporting food, drink, and agricultural produce. It may also harmonize rules around carbon emissions trading systems, simplifying compliance for multinational organizations that are large emitters, and enable more young people to gain ...
2025-06-20T14:20:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
The U.S. Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty as commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, marking a shift in agency staffing that gave commissioners nominated by President Donald Trump a majority of decision-making power. The move followed resignations of two commissioners earlier this month, each of whom had been nominated ...
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