United States: White Collar Crime, Anti-Corruption & Fraud

On June 3, 2026, President Trump signed the new Executive Order “Strengthening Customs Enforcement.” This new order from the administration tackles different administrative priorities related to customs: Customs Reform and Combatting Customs Fraud.

Between July 2011 and June 2014, California-based Perfectus Aluminum Inc., Perfectus Aluminum Acquisitions LLC, and four affiliated warehousing companies imported more than 2.2 million aluminum extrusions from China.

Today, scrutiny is no longer confined to public equities markets. In a pair of recent prosecutions, including last week’s indictment of a Google employee, the Department of Justice has made clear that it will pursue insider trading type cases wherever (i) confidential data moves prices, and (ii) a duty-bound actor exploits that data for trading advantage, even outside the securities laws. Prediction markets and crypto platforms appear to be the primary testing ground for this expanded enforcement theory

The U.S. Department of State has designated two major Brazilian criminal organizations, Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists and Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

In Assured Testing Labs. LLC v. PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed Chapter 93A claims, holding that the alleged deceptive conduct did not occur...

The salesperson walked you through everything. The emails were detailed and specific. The text messages were explicit. You were told exactly what you were getting — and on the basis of those assurances, you signed.

Last week we wrote about an executive order that, borrowing the line two podcast hosts had used for the administration's permissive posture toward frontier-model risk, did not survive contact with reality.

The False Claims Act, born from Civil War-era defense contractor fraud, has evolved over 163 years to become a critical tool for combating government procurement fraud. As military spending surges amid modern conflicts, the same dynamics that prompted Lincoln to empower whistleblowers continue...

The Department of Justice has revamped its Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy, offering significant incentives for companies that proactively report misconduct. Understanding how voluntary self-disclosure, full cooperation, and timely remedial actions can help businesses avoid prosecution is crucial for corporate compliance strategies.