![]() ![]() ![]() “The toolkit has slowly grown, and the government has become increasingly emboldened to use it,” said Brandon Van Grack, a former Justice Department official who co-chairs the national security practice at law firm Morrison & Foerster. foreign policy has increasingly embraced sanctions and export controls, imposing sweeping restrictions on Russia in response to its Ukraine invasion and tightening exports of sensitive technology to China amid growing tensions with Beijing. The department declined to offer specifics. national security, Miller told a conference on corporate compliance in New Jersey earlier this month. “We’re now seeing it broadly across the spectrum, related to all industries that are engaged in cross-border economic activity,” he told Reuters.Ībout two-thirds of the Justice Department's corporate criminal settlements since last October have implicated U.S. Marshall Miller, a senior Justice Department official who has helped craft the government's white-collar strategy, called the case a “prime example” of national security legal risk extending into “new markets and industries.” Last month, British-American Tobacco Plc agreed to pay a $635 million criminal penalty for conspiring to violate U.S. It is also hiring a chief counsel to build complex national security cases involving corporations, and is increasing funding for a Criminal Division unit that has prosecuted banking industry sanctions cases. The Justice Department plans to add about 25 prosecutors to its National Security Division, mainly focused on sanctions and U.S. Justice Department official and now a partner at law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. “It's an unprecedented time for companies who are on the front lines of national security issues in a way they never have been before,” said John Carlin, a former senior U.S. agencies are expanding their enforcement staffs to police sanctions compliance across the private sector, beyond traditional areas like financial services and defense. government and private lawyers are preparing for a surge in sanctions and export control enforcement, as the Biden administration leans on economic tools to counter global adversaries like Russia and China. ![]()
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