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ACI’s Mexico Summit on Anti-Corruption & Compliance Programs returns on March 13-14, 2024 in Mexico City! Given the uncertainty with the looming Presidential election,...
Over the course of the year — and even dating back to his time on the campaign trail — President Biden and senior officials in his administration, including Department of Justice (DOJ)...
With President Joe Biden gung-ho about fighting corruption, new anti-money laundering rules looming, and vulnerabilities that were amplified by the pandemic, companies should act now to reexamine and bolster their compliance programs, experts say.
Why so little FCPA enforcement against companies so far in 2021? An obvious explanation is high-level personnel changes in the federal government since the January 20 inauguration. There’s traditionally a lot of turnover when the White House changes hands, especially when one political party replaces the other, as happened this year. A new U.S. Attorney General is running Main Justice, with a mostly new slate of top prosecutors. The post-election changes are still happening. Last week, for example, the head of the DOJ’s FCPA unit since 2019, Christopher Cestaro, left for private practice....
By Kyle Brasseur2021-04-30T17:08:00+01:00 The chief of the Justice Department’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit is set to depart the agency for a position with law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Christopher Cestaro will join WilmerHale as a partner in the firm’s White-Collar Defense and Investigations practice, according to an announcement Friday. Cestaro will begin in the Washington D.C.-based role on May 10. Cestaro was promoted to acting chief of the Justice Department’s FCPA Unit in July 2019. He was later given the permanent title. The division is part of the...