Solventum Corp., the healthcare and medtech company spun off from 3M in 2024, will pay the government $1.6 million after admitting that it sent dozens of contactors — devices used to regulate the amount of gas in liquids — to semiconductor companies in China without the required licenses.
A Texas businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday in Houston to conspiring to bribe an official at Petróleos Mexicanos’ exploration subsidiary in a bid to secure a roughly $540 million equipment contract, marking the latest U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case tied to Pemex procurement.
FinCEN has proposed rules to stand up the long-promised whistleblower program for Bank Secrecy Act, sanctions, and related cases, formalizing incentives and anti-retaliation protections for individuals who voluntarily provide original information about potential violations of the BSA, IEEPA, TWEA, and the Kingpin Act
A veteran executive at an Italian firearms wholesaler pleaded guilty Monday to helping divert U.S.-made ammunition to Russia through Kyrgyzstan, in a case DOJ says exposed how licensed shipments to Europe could be rerouted in breach of export restrictions meant to keep American ammunition out of Moscow’s war effort.
A week after the Trump administration issued a hall pass on Iranian oil sales, some international buyers are taking the bait, but questions remain as to how far they can stretch the definition of transactions “ordinarily incident and necessary to” purchases of the usually-illicit crude.
The Justice Department on March 25 charged three men with conspiring to commit smuggling and export-control violations in an alleged scheme to obtain millions of dollars’ worth of export-controlled U.S. AI chips for shipment to China through Thailand. The criminal complaint portrays the deal as collapsing under a succession of compliance red flags.
Questions are mounting over what the Justice Department plans to do with the roughly $9 Billion in bitcoin it seized in the Prince Group case. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reporting said victim advocates fear the assets could be steered away from restitution and into the Trump administration’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
The former chief executive of Puerto Rico’s Nodus International Bank, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, admitting his role in a scheme that prosecutors said drained at least $24.9 million from the bank and included a prohibited transaction involving a Venezuela-related sanctioned person.
The Justice Department’s declination for Balt SAS and Balt USA LLC is emerging as an early test of the department’s revised corporate-enforcement framework, with compliance observers arguing the case shows DOJ is trying to reward companies that report misconduct before investigators arrive. DOJ declined to prosecute the French medical-device company, required disgorgement of $1,214,797. As well, the governement charged former Balt USA executive David Ferrera and Belgian consultant Marc Tilman over an alleged bribery scheme involving a physician at a French state-owned public hospital.
The Justice Department on Thursday unsealed criminal charges against three men accused of using false end-user paperwork, Southeast Asian transshipment routes, and staged “dummy” equipment to divert U.S.-assembled AI servers to China.
A federal judge in Chicago has fined Chinese telecommunications company Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd. $50 million and placed it on probation for five years after the company admitted conspiring to steal trade secrets from Motorola Solutions, federal prosecutors said.
The Justice Department on Tuesday issued its first department-wide corporate enforcement policy for criminal matters, extending across nearly all DOJ components a uniform framework that rewards companies that voluntarily disclose misconduct, cooperate, and remediate.
Akin Gump says the UK whistleblowing landscape is tightening on three fronts at once: broader employment-law protection, new FCA expectations around non-financial misconduct, and renewed interest in financial rewards for whistleblowers.
A Japanese national who admitted plotting to traffic nuclear materials, narcotics, firearms, and laundered funds was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison in federal court in Manhattan, the Justice Department said
Whistleblower attorney Mary Inman of Whistleblower Partners says the volume of qui‑tam and bounty claims remains robust despite political shifts.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has offered a pointed reminder that the Export Administration Regulations’ “de minimis” relief is a narrow accounting rule—not a design lever. In a February 26 settlement order involving Teledyne FLIR and its affiliates, BIS described how legacy FLIR practices undervalued U.S.-origin content embedded in foreign-made thermal camera systems, leading to unlicensed reexports to China.
The Southern District of New York (SDNY) has unveiled a sweeping new policy that offers corporations unprecedented incentives to self-disclose misconduct. Under the program, eligible firms that self-report financial crimes early, fully cooperate, and remediate harm can receive conditional and final declination letters – meaning no prosecution, no fines, and no monitors if they meet their obligations.
Peter Williams, 39, an Australian national and former general manager at Trenchant—an L3Harris Technologies cyber and intelligence unit—was sentenced Tuesday to 87 months in prison for stealing and selling sensitive cyber-exploit components to a Russia-linked cyber-tools broker, the Justice Department said.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has announced a settlement with Vizocom ICT (El Cajon, California) over the unlicensed export of controlled technology to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in connection with military radio antennas.
The Commerce Department’s top export-enforcement official told House lawmakers that increasingly complex diversion networks targeting U.S. dual-use technology are outpacing current enforcement resources—and that Congress should strengthen the statutory deterrence structure under the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA).
