Worldwide: White Collar Crime, Anti-Corruption & 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.

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.

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 Department of Justice has announced sweeping reforms to accelerate review of False Claims Act qui tam complaints alleging fraud in federally funded benefits programs...

The U.S. Department of State has designated two major Brazil-based transnational criminal organizations as Specially Designated Global Terrorists and Foreign Terrorist Organizations, marking a significant expansion of the Trump Administration's counterterrorism strategy. This development follows similar designations of Mexican and Latin American criminal groups and represents a novel application of counterterrorism authorities to combat organized crime.

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.

Our firm has a pro bono client who lost thousands of dollars trusting someone she met online. Over two years, the fraudster convinced her to move her funds to a US “bank” that would help her pay for her daughter’s expensive hospital stays.

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.

In this episode, Anna Tang, Nathan Guttman and Kimberly Kamkar tackle one of the most hotly negotiated provisions in M&A: sandbagging – what happens when a buyer closes a deal knowing...