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Deputy Attorney General Details New Policy of Criminal Liability for Companies and Employees (Lexology)
Lexology, August 18, 2016
Deputy Attorney General Details New Policy of Criminal Liability for Companies and Employees
The Department of Justice continues to underscore its policy to prosecute individuals in corporate cases. Following the DOJ’s controversial September 2015 mandate instructing federal attorneys to prosecute individual employees in addition to companies, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates defended the position at the New York City Bar Association White Collar Criminal Law Committee Conference on May 10, 2016. Yates focused on the parts of the so-called “Yates Memo” that involve privileged communications in response to worries and criticisms from corporations.
