This Week in Government Enforcement: Recent Episodes
Baker McKenzie's North America Government Enforcement partners Tom Firestone and Jerome Tomas
This weekly briefing is available on demand and will cover hot topics and current enforcement actions related to white collar crime and criminal investigations in the US and abroad to arm you with the information you need to start your business week.
As one of the largest global law firms, we will call upon our exceptionally deep and broad bench of white collar experts throughout the world and particularly in the commercial hubs of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America to join our weekly discussion series.
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
- Managing Allegations of Workplace Wrongdoing: Independent Investigator’s Report on Chicago Blackhawks Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
- CFTC v. HDR GLOBAL TRADING LIMITED, ET AL
- Motion to Dismiss Unregistered Crypto Exchange Claims
- Control Person Liability Runs Into “Minimum Contacts”
- House Committee on January 6 Attack Subpoenas Trump Advisors
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
- Details Behind The SEC Whistleblower Award That Pushed the Program Over $1 Billion in Whistleblower Payouts
- SEC v. DAYAKAR R. MALLU – Tipper-Tippee Insider Trading Case – SEC Investigation Tactics and Trends
- Indictment of lawyer by Trump-appointed Special Counsel for lying to the FBI in Russia investigation.
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
- Organized crime charges in new elder abuse case
- Novel SEC Insider Trading Action — Shadow Trading — SEC v. Matthew Panuwa
- Quick blurb on 18 year old and under crackdown on video game playing in China
- SEC v. MANISH LACHWANI – The SEC’s Enforcement Focus on Unicorns
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Report on Lessons of Corruption in Afghanistan
Novel SEC Insider Trading Action — Shadow Trading — SEC v. Matthew Panuwa
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
- New DOJ opinion on Trump tax returns
- New DOJ policy on subpoenas to new organizations
- New DOJ memorandum on White House communications
- SEC Chair Gensler’s Public Statement on Disclosures Required by Chinese Companies Listed In US
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
- The Importance of Having Up-To-Date Automated Accounting Procedures, Effective Manual Accounting Procedures, and Trained Accounting Staff: The SEC’s Latest Accounting Case Against Tandy Leather Factory Inc. and its former chief executive officer Shannon Greene.
- Indictment of Trump Advisor Thomas Barrack
- Biden Executive Order on Promoting Competition
This week’s discussion will cover the following:
• Manhattan DA’s Indictment of the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg
• New SEC Enforcement Director – New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal
• SEC and federal criminal charges filed arising out of alleged fraudulent scheme to sell “insider trading tips” on the Dark Web- SEC v. Apostolos Trovias
• New Charges in 1MDB Case
• FARA Reform Proposals
• Possible New Russia Sanctions
• Cyber SEC Enforcement: Latest SEC Disclosure Controls and Procedures Enforcement Case
• A New SEC Cyber Enforcement Sweep
• White House strategy statement on corruption and national security
• Belarus sanctions
• Bulgaria sanctions
• Executive Order on Western Balkans
• Potential SEC ESG Disclosure Rulemaking and Materiality: Commissioners Allison Herren Lee and Elad Roisman Continue to Volley