The US Department of Justice’s Criminal Division Fraud Section (DOJ) released its annual Year in Review reporton February 24, covering 2020. This year’s report highlights DOJ’s sustained aggressive enforcement efforts despite the global pandemic. In 2020 we saw record-setting dollar figures, the ongoing trend of cooperation with foreign authorities, DOJ’s quick ramp-up in prosecuting Paycheck Protection Program fraud, and emphasis on corporate compliance programs—or the lack thereof—as a key factor driving some of the largest resolutions in Fraud Section history. BY THE NUMBERS From 2019 to 2020, the quantity of corporate resolutions largely stayed the same, with only a small dip, but the dollar figures by paid corporations to resolve these matters more than doubled. In 2019, corporations paid total global settlement amounts of more than $3.2 billion across 15 resolutions—seven Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) resolutions and eight Market Integrity and Major Frauds (MIMF) resolutions. By steep contrast, corporations in 2020 paid more than $8.9 billion in global settlements across 13 resolutions—eight FCPA and five MIMF resolutions.