White Collar and Enforcement Outlook 2025
With 2025 underway, the ArentFox Schiff White Collar team highlights the US Department of Justice’s ( DOJ ) new enforcement priorities and two cases pending before the US Supreme Court that could have sweeping implications for future white-collar fraud cases. Within hours of her US Senate confirmation on February 5, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued 14 memoranda to all DOJ employees, shifting the DOJ’s focus toward national security priorities and reallocating investigative resources and personnel. These memoranda largely implement directives set forth in executive orders issued in the first days of the Trump Administration. The DOJ’s new enforcement priorities include illegal immigration, human smuggling, and transnational crime organizations (TCOs), gangs, and cartels . In support of these priorities, the DOJ will prioritize Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) actions with connections to TCOs, gangs, and c...