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Sam RubenfeldLate last month, reporter and editor Sam Rubenfeld announced via Twitter that after ten years, he was leaving the Wall Street Journal.
He joined the Journal fresh out of college and quickly found his way to the Corruption Currents blog, while also editing and writing for the Dow Jones Newsletters and Newswires.… Continue Reading
The head of the Justice Department’s criminal division issued new guidance to prosecutors that’s likely to reduce the number of corporate settlements that require the hiring of compliance monitors.
Brian Benczkowski said prosecutors should consider the “projected costs and burdens” before imposing any requirement for a corporate monitor.… Continue Reading
A DOJ official said Friday the Pilot Program won’t expire on April 5 but will continue while the agency evaluates how the program has worked and whether it should be extended or changed.… Continue Reading
The DOJ’s Pilot Program to encourage companies to self report bribery and cooperate with prosecutors doesn’t fix some problems with FCPA investigations and enforcement actions, Lanny Breuer said Wednesday.
The vice chair of Covington & Burling and former U.S.… Continue Reading
The FCPA Blog will be in New York City on October 26 and I hope you’ll be there too.
Most of our senior and contributing editors will be speaking about topics I know you care about.… Continue Reading
In-house lawyers, we said yesterday, are now caught between their duty as advocates on the one hand, and the modern concept of ethics and compliance on the other hand. Talk about a headache.… Continue Reading
Mythili Raman, partner in Covington & Burling’s Washington, DC officeAfter 18 years at the Justice Department, and leading the criminal division during 2013 and 2014, Mythili Raman joined Covington & Burling’s white-collar crime and litigation practice in April. … Continue Reading
Mythili Raman, the DOJ’s former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, has joined 800-lawyer Covington & Burling as a partner, the firm said Tuesday.
She’ll practice in the firm’s D.C.… Continue Reading
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division is leaving the agency Friday, March 21. But the 17-year DOJ veteran made time the day before her departure to speak to the Global Anti-corruption Compliance Congress in Washington, DC.… Continue Reading
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division announced on Wednesday that she is leaving the agency, effective March 21, 2014.
Under her leadership for the past year, the Criminal Division charged or convicted more than a dozen individuals for FCPA-related violations, and secured three of the ten of the biggest corporate FCPA resolutions ever involving a unit of Alcoa, France’s Total SA, and Weatherford International.… Continue Reading
The FBI’s much heralded FCPA Unit had consisted of at least 12 agents working out of the Washington, D.C. field office since around 2008, with a full-time focus on FCPA cases.… Continue Reading
Lanny Breuer, who stepped down this month after heading the DOJ’s criminal divison for four years, has returned to Covington & Burling to be the law firm’s vice chair.
At the DOJ, Breuer supervised ‘nearly 600 lawyers at the center of federal criminal prosecution, policy, and legislation in the United States,’ his firm bio says.… Continue Reading