Justice Officials Promise Clarity in Upcoming Corporate Guidance

Two Justice Department officials crafting new white-collar enforcement policies defended the Biden administration’s plans to hold corporate recidivists and more individuals accountable, assuring critics that reasonable clarity is coming.

DOJ deputies in the Criminal and Civil divisions, both of whom sit on a corporate crime advisory group tasked with recommending formal policy shifts, addressed concerns about their mandate at the American Bar Association’s white-collar conference in San Francisco Thursday. They were joined on a panel by a group of former DOJ officials who now represent companies opposite the department and voiced a range of complaints about the corporate crackdown announced ...