All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 152
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Theranos’ health takes a turn for the worse
The health of ailing biotech start-up Theranos continues to decline, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services imposed numerous sanctions on the firm following a review last year of its laboratory operations that uncovered numerous compliance violations. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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New Commerce Department rule harmonizes export controls regime
Export controls can be tricky business, especially regarding the transmission of technical data over the cloud—something becoming ever-more common in modern business, yet currently constrained by tough export controls. New rules from the Commerce Department could change all of that. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Commercial drones raise compliance issues for shipping industry
The shipping industry’s innovative use of drones to ferry goods to tanker ships shows promise, but carries compliance risk. Guest columnist Martin Foncello of Exiger gets into the details.
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ArticleAssessing antitrust risk in M&A transactions
Top officials at the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have announced their intention to focus heavily on M&A antitrust enforcement, at a time when merger activity is skyrocketing. Jaclyn Jaeger explores how the agencies plan to tackle some of the larger, more complex deals ahead.
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SEC whistleblower chief Sean McKessy to depart agency
The SEC announced today that after more than five years as the first-ever chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, Sean McKessy plans to leave the agency. McKessy joined the SEC to head up its new whistleblower program in February 2011 and has helped get the program on strong ...
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Archive2Azure simplifies long-term unstructured data retention
Archive360, a Microsoft cloud solution provider, announced the availability of Archive2Azure, a regulatory compliance storage solution optimized for the Microsoft Azure platform.
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‘Failure to cooperate’ multiplies SEC penalty from $2K to $980K
On June 21, 2016, the SEC announced that the failure of a defendant in an SEC enforcement action to live up to an agreement to “cooperate fully and truthfully” had resulted in that defendant's penalty being increased from $2,533 to a staggering $980,229. And it could have been worse! Bruce ...
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Pharmaceutical industry bristles under FDA draft guidance
The amount of FDA draft guidance in play during the past few months has drawn skepticism from the pharmaceutical industry, which has its own thoughts on how best to address the broad scope of the agency’s proposed authority. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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FINRA fines Deutsche Bank $6 million for submitting inaccurate trade data
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined Deutsche Bank Securities $6 million for failing to provide complete, accurate trade data in an automated format in a timely manner when requested by FINRA and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Former SEC Commissioner and Enf. Dir. Irving Pollack Passes Away at Age 98
Irving M. Pollack, a former SEC Commissioner who also served as the agency's first director of the Enforcement Division, passed away on July 1, 2016 at the age of 98. Pollack served at the SEC for 34 years.
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2016 SEC trial scorecard update: New Mexico verdict hands agency first loss
On Wednesday, the SEC suffered its first setback in its FY 2016 federal court trials following a trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
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False Claims Act penalties to double
Federal contractors, beware: False Claims Act penalties will nearly double, effective Aug. 1. The increase in penalties is especially relevant to healthcare providers, government contractors and others that conduct business with the government. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.
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SEC's Dabney O'Riordan Named Co-Chief of Asset Mgmt Unit
Yesterday, C. Dabney O’Riordan of the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office was named co-chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit. She fills the co-chief role left vacant when Marshall Sprung left the agency in April 2016 to join Blackstone Group LP as a managing director and the firm's ...
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Volkswagen could spend $14.7 billion for cheating emissions tests
In two related settlements—one with the United States and the State of California, and one with the Federal Trade Commission—German automaker Volkswagen and related entities have agreed to spend up to $14.7 billion to settle allegations of cheating emissions tests and deceiving customers, the Department of Justice said. Jaclyn Jaeger ...
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SEC charges four companies for oil and gas fraud
The SEC has charged four companies and eight individuals in an $80 million oil and gas fraud orchestrated by a man who calls himself the “Frack Master” for his purported expertise in hydraulic fracturing. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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SEC: Merrill Lynch to pay $415M for misusing customer cash
Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay $415 million to settle charges that it misused customer cash to generate profits for the firm and failed to safeguard customer securities from the claims of its creditors. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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'Hold' everything: SEC may be stuck at three commissioners for a while
Instead of trying to come up with new ways to repeatedly express public “disappointment” in the SEC, says enforcement blogger Bruce Carton, perhaps the U.S. Senate could simply do its own job and vote on the two nominees that President Obama nominated back in October 2015. Carton explores reasons behind ...
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Compliance fail: Chinese bank employees publicly spanked for poor performance
A disturbing video of a Chinese bank's effort to improve employee performance -- through public, violent spankings of employees -- was posted yesterday. The video, which will make even the most hardened U.S. compliance officer cringe, shows a line of employees from Changzhi Rural Commercial Bank being subjected to an ...
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Compliance front and center
The SEC and Justice Department have made it clear that it will no longer be adequate for companies merely to have a compliance program in place; it must actually be taken seriously from within and given the power and resources to do its job. Tom Fox explores.