Peter Thomas

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On June 9, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) will resume investigating and prosecuting violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the “FCPA”) with a decidedly new “America First” approach to enforcement. In a memorandum detailing DOJ’s new guidelines for FCPA cases (the “Blanche Memo”), the Department ended a four-month pause ordered earlier this year by President Donald Trump.