Matthew Galeotti, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced a new white-collar crimes enforcement plan at a May 12 financial conference, spotlighting the Trump administration’s focus on disrupting transnational networks that evade U.S. sanctions, tariffs, and immigration law.
It also expanded its whistleblower program to cover these priority areas.
The DOJ will be pulling back on monitoring American corporations, while incentivizing companies to self-report and cooperate with investigations against bad actors.
“Self-disclosure is key to receiving the most generous benefits the Criminal Division can offer. Why? Because coming forward and coming clean lets the Department devote its resources to investigating and prosecuting individual wrongdoers and the most egregious criminal schemes,” Galeotti said, according to prepared remarks....
