Sally Yates, the former Deputy Attorney General, released a memorandum on September 9, 2015, known as the “Yates Memo.”1 The Yates Memorandum made fighting corporate fraud—specifically, targeting individual, executive bad actors—a top priority for the United States Department of Justice’s (DOJ) criminal division.2 As a result, large international corporations have increasingly hired third-party law firms…
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Criminal Liability for Volkswagen’s Defeat Devices
Former Volkswagen CEO, Martin Winterkorn, recently resigned from his position at the company.1 His resignation comes shortly after it was discovered the company was using a “defeat device” to fool emissions tests.2 The device allowed Volkswagen’s “clean diesel” vehicles to sense when they were being tested and to decrease the pollution they emitted in their…