By Aaron Nicodemus2025-02-13T15:50:00
With a six-month ban on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), compliance should retreat from fear-based messaging and instead focus on why ethical practices make good business sense, experts say.
President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place a six-month pause on enforcement of the FCPA, saying the law has been “stretched beyond proper bounds” and “abused” under Democratic leadership.
In an executive order issued Monday, Trump said that “overexpansive and unpredictable FCPA enforcement” of what he called “routine business practices in other nations”–namely, practices involving bribery–“actively harms American economic competitiveness and, therefore, national security.”
2025-06-11T16:44:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice has ended its six-month FCPA enforcement pause, closed half its legacy bribery cases, and will now pursue foreign bribery probes aligned with President Donald Trump’s priorities.
2025-02-10T15:27:00Z By Rezaul Karim, CW guest columnist
The dark web has been depicted as a long-standing hub for crimes, where illegal activities such as drug dealing, financial fraud, weapon sales, murder for hire, stolen credit cards, and ransomware gags are easily accessible to the public.
2025-02-06T20:05:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.S. Department of Justice under new Attorney General Pam Bondi will de-emphasize white collar misconduct linked to bribes and foreign corruption, instead prioritizing corruption cases linked to human smuggling and the trafficking of narcotics and firearms.
2025-10-15T19:43:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
Under the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration have been hellbent on eliminating synthetic food dyes from food and beverage products, forcing a jarring and costly overhaul with cascading impacts on the operations of the entire industry.
2025-10-08T20:08:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Private companies that are keen to trade their shares but do not wish to become listed have gained another way to trade their shares. The U.K. government completed its initial review and published rules for the system in June.
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.
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