By Adrianne Appel2024-09-26T14:23:00
Companies under criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice for any reason must show they have robust compliance for any artificial intelligence (AI) in use–or risk heightened prosecution–under a DOJ policy update.
Companies also must show that they have strong whistleblower protections, according to an update of the DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP), an online guidebook about the compliance, governance, and risk assessment systems the DOJ expects companies to have.
The DOJ periodically updates the ECCP, and announced in March that it planned to include AI and whistleblower protections. In March 2023, an ECCP update provided guidance about corporate off-channel communications, among other issues.
2024-11-27T18:22:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Now that the U.S. Department of Justice launched a new pilot whistleblower program, many questions remain. What types of companies might find themselves to be the subject of a criminal investigation stemming from a whistleblower tip? And what should they do to prepare for a whistleblower tip?
2024-11-25T19:18:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice has added antitrust compliance guidance in an update to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs.
2024-10-02T17:49:00Z By Adrianne Appel
A federal court in Florida has lashed out at federal whistleblower programs by dismissing a mundane False Claims Act case against a medical practice on the grounds that the qui tam provisions of the FCA are unconstitutional.
2025-10-03T21:24:00Z By Adrianne Appel
While the Trump administration may have shifted away from pursuing small, white-collar, financial crimes, its focus on health care fraud cases is as hot as ever.
2025-10-01T21:10:00Z By Neil Hodge
The U.K’.s financial regulator has given a strong indication that financial firms’ use of unauthorized devices and apps is under scrutiny and that policies around off-channel communications need to be tightened up.
2025-09-29T19:09:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Regulatory relief from anti-money laundering rules is in the cards for casinos, insurance companies and other non-bank financial institutions, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said Monday.
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