On March 10, 2017, at the annual ABA White Collar Conference in Miami, Kenneth Blanco, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Criminal Division, announced that the FCPA Pilot Program would stay in place beyond its current April 5, 2017 expiration date so the DOJ could “begin the process of evaluating the utility and the
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SEC’s Use of ALJs: Possible U-Turn Ahead
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Oh, what a year makes. Back in October 2014, all the chatter was about the SEC’s increased use of its home-grown Administrative Law Judges to move its enforcement actions to their conclusion versus tangling with defendants in federal court. The WSJ (like every other media outlet) reported on this turn in the SEC’s strategy, with …
Will Rakoff’s “Legal Error” Change SEC’s View of Settlement Admissions?
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On June 4, 2014, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Judge Rakoff’s November 28, 2011 Order that had rejected the Citigroup-SEC settlement on a number of grounds, including that the SEC had allowed Citigroup to avoid admitting guilt. The Appellate Court found that Judge Rakoff abused his discretion and committed “legal error” in requiring…