An international commodities trading company pled guilty and paid monetary penalties to resolve DOJ charges for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The company had been charged with bribing then-public officials of an Ecuadorian state-owned oil company to secure business advantages and contracts.
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The DOJ, OFAC, FinCEN and the CFTC settled enforcement actions against Binance, its CEO and former CCO. The coordinated settlements addressed charges against the digital asset exchange for CFTC registration failures and for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and International Emergency Economic Powers Act sanctions programs.
Two Florida resorts agreed to settle with the DOJ for conspiring to fraudulently obtain loan funds provided under the Paycheck Protection Program.
The DOJ filed a criminal complaint against a Vietnamese citizen for operating an online cryptocurrency “mixing” service that helped customers launder bitcoin proceeds of illicit activities.
In a new Report, the U.S. Attorney General described how law enforcement agencies police digital asset markets and recommended policies to mitigate risks in the digital asset space.