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Jan 24, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Krista Cooley |Francis L. Doorley |Steven A. Kaplan |Kelly Kramer
On January 10, 2025, the Maryland Office of Financial Regulation(OFR) issued formalguidance asserting that assignees of residential mortgageloans—including certain "passive trusts" thatacquire or obtain assignments of residential mortgage loans inMaryland—must become licensed in Maryland prior to April 10,2025, unless the assignee is expressly exempt under Maryland law.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Kelly Kramer |John Nadolenco
In 2014, John Nadolenco, a managing partner at Mayer Brown'sLos Angeles office, received a startling dispatch from Brazil. The letter, sent from Brazil's attorney general, detailed aninternational dispute then being litigated in a Los Angeles statecourt: the illegal smuggling of a massive emerald, excavated in2001 from Brazil's Bahia region, to the United States. At first, Nadolenco assumed the letter was a "totalhoax" in the vein of a "Nigerian prince" emailphishing scam.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Adam Hickey |Timothy J. Keeler |Kelly Kramer
As predicted earlier this year in our January update, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has continued to ramp up enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and related political laws through criminal prosecution. This Legal Update provides a brief summary of recent criminal cases, and highlights several issues to watch in the coming months.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Adam Hickey |Timothy J. Keeler |Kelly Kramer |Mickey Leibner
As predicted earlier this year in our January update, the US Department of Justice
(DOJ) has continued to ramp up enforcement of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA) and related political laws through criminal
prosecution. This Legal Update provides a brief summary of recent
criminal cases, and highlights several issues to watch in the
coming months.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Jason N. Linder |J. Gregory Deis |Gina M. Parlovecchio |Kelly Kramer
On August 1, 2024, the US Department of Justice ("DOJ"
or "Department") released highly anticipated details of its new
Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program ("Pilot
Program"), with Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Nicole M.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Hannah Ha |Christian Horstkotte |Nathalie Jalabert Doury |Kelly Kramer
Dawn raids are back – and they're bigger and bolder
than ever before. Authorities are now copying personal electronic
devices and seizing information from social media accounts,
visiting individual homes, raiding premises in different countries
at the same time, and acting on the basis of their own preliminary
investigatory work rather than a leniency application.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Jason N. Linder |J. Gregory Deis |Gina M. Parlovecchio |Kelly Kramer
On March 7, 2024, the Deputy Attorney General of the US
Department of Justice ("DOJ" or "Department")
announced a pilot program to encourage
whistleblowers to report evidence of high-priority white collar
crimes with the potential to recover financial rewards from any
funds forfeited as part of a resulting criminal enforcement
action.
As Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | J. Gregory Deis |Glen Kopp |Kelly Kramer |Jason N. Linder
On January 10, 2024, US Attorney for the Southern District of
New York ("SDNY") Damian Williams introduced a
whistleblower pilot program targeting corporate crime, bribery and
theft of government funds (the "SDNY Whistleblower Pilot
Program"). Designed to encourage voluntary self-reporting, the
program allows for individuals to receive non-prosecution
agreements, if they disclose information and cooperate regarding
certain non-violent offenses.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | J. Gregory Deis |Glen Kopp |Kelly Kramer
[co-author: Nitin Nainani]*On January 10, 2024, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) Damian Williams introduced a whistleblower pilot program targeting corporate crime, bribery and theft of government funds (the “SDNY Whistleblower Pilot Program”). Designed to encourage voluntary self-reporting, the program allows for individuals to receive non-prosecution agreements, if they disclose information and cooperate regarding certain non-violent offenses.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
lexology.com | J. Gregory Deis |Glen Kopp |Kelly Kramer |Jason N. Linder |Gina M. Parlovecchio |Michel Sancovski | +1 more
On January 10, 2024, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) Damian Williams introduced a whistleblower pilot program targeting corporate crime, bribery and theft of government funds (the “SDNY Whistleblower Pilot Program”). Designed to encourage voluntary self-reporting, the program allows for individuals to receive non-prosecution agreements, if they disclose information and cooperate regarding certain non-violent offenses.
