In her remarks yesterday at New York University Law School, US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco laid out the Department of Justice's (DOJ) plans for corporate criminal enforcement, as established in an accompanying memo. Monaco's speech touched on five main topics: individual accountability, corporate recidivism, voluntary self-disclosure, compliance resourcing, and corporate culture.
According to Monaco, going forward, the DOJ's top enforcement priority will be holding individuals accountable for their actions — or inaction. While the DOJ has secured several wins regarding the criminal prosecution of individuals in the past year, Monaco acknowledges that corporate criminal prosecutions have been down over the past decade. She pledged that the DOJ would be working faster.
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