Max Fillion

Emilio Azcárraga Jean’s administrative leave comes roughly two months after the company said it had learned about a DOJ investigation into “Fifa-related activity”. 

A federal judge weighing a fraud resolution between the parties had asked them to explain how their diversity, equity and inclusion policies would impact their choice of a monitor to help overhaul the aeroplane maker’s compliance programme. 

A top official at the Criminal Division said prosecutors are reviewing whether companies that recently entered into criminal resolutions are eligible for “early termination” based on a recent revision to the department’s corporate enforcement policy.

A Texas federal judge said a DOJ policy requiring the selection of a compliance monitor “in keeping with the Department’s commitment to diversity and inclusion” rendered the agreement against the public interest. He also took issue with the DOJ’s failure to require Boeing to adhere to the monitor’s recommendations. 

The telecom company's claims that it was targeted by the DOJ as part of the US-China trade war are “unmoored” from the substance of its legal arguments for dismissing a criminal racketeering case, which are “mundane, meritless” and foreclosed by binding precedent, prosecutors said. 

A six-month enforcement pause and a new memo narrowing FCPA enforcement to cases involving criminal groups are unlikely to immediately change corporate compliance programmes, they added.

John Eisenberg, who previously served as a legal adviser to the National Security Council during President Donald Trump’s first term, was reportedly involved in the handling of a July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that led to the US president’s first impeachment. 

Government investigations are just one part of a white-collar practitioner’s job, the former Criminal Division acting chief told GIR upon his arrival at White & Case. 

Nicola Leigh, the commodities trader’s current deputy company secretary, will take over on 1 May after her predecessor left last week, GIR has learned. 

Shortly before stepping away from the Debevoise partnership, a figure who shaped the landscape of global investigations work reflected on his career in an interview with GIR.