The Yates Memo and the new normal for individual enforcement
In a speech before the New York bar, Justice Department Deputy Assistant Sally Yates detailed some of the effects the Justice Department has already seen from the Yates Memo, released last September, including a larger focus on individual actor culpability and a drive by DoJ lawyers to identify the individuals ...
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