The DOJ recently revised the Justice Manual to reinstate previous agency policy on how it will enforce FCA cases moving forward, and when it will seek to dismiss whistleblower actions.
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
Posted inTechnology
Strange Polymarket trades, a KPMG employee, and a prediction market insider trading case
At a time when U.S. enforcement authorities and regulators are more closely scrutinizing insider trading in the prediction-markets space by public-company employees, another alleged insider-trading case is unfolding, this time concerning a KPMG employee.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Compliance implications of the National Fraud Enforcement Division
Eight months after the Trump Administration announced the establishment of a whole-of-government National Fraud Enforcement Division, many in the legal and compliance community are still left speculating about its purpose and scope of enforcement authority.
Posted inRegulatory Policy
When personal liability becomes a compliance responsibility
At times, enforcement agencies will issue a press release that announces the resolution of a case, but that also elicits more questions than answers. Sometimes the most instructive lessons for compliance, accounting, and internal audit teams can be found in what is not stated publicly.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Enforcement activity over Hart-Scott-Rodino Act violations heating up
The biggest takeaway from the fiscal year 2025 Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Enforcement report was not the number of merger transactions reported, which has remained steady, but the value of the transactions themselves.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Ex-Bridgestone Americas employee to forfeit $21M earned from stolen funds
A former employee of Bridgestone Americas has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud for carrying out a scheme that resulted in his employer paying nearly $15 million in fraudulent invoices submitted through a fictitious vendor that he created.
Posted inHealthcare
OSF Healthcare pays $552,250 for HIPAA violations from ransomware breach
Illinois-based OSF Healthcare System has agreed to pay $552,250 to resolve potential HIPAA violations tied to a 2021 ransomware attack.hea
Posted inFinancial Services
UBS hit with record $125M civil penalty for ‘willful’ BSA violations
UBS Financial Services was slapped with a record $125 million joint civil penalty by four regulatory agencies for willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, including a failure to implement and maintain an anti-money laundering compliance program and failure to file suspicious activity reports.
Posted inOpinion
Opinion: SCOTUS slaughtered federal agency independence: What it means for compliance officers
One ruling is all it took for the U.S. Supreme Court to slaughter the independent, bipartisan operations of a federal agency and introduce significantly more regulatory upheaval for the compliance profession.
Posted inWhistleblowers
CFTC proposes to amend Whistleblower Rule, signals more enforcement activity
The CFTC is seeking comment on a proposed amendment to its whistleblower rules and warned that its enforcement program will “relentlessly focus on serious violations.”
