Merrick Garland, U.S. attorney general, speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Several House Democrats promise to sink the White House’s economic agenda if a scaled-back version now being considered eliminates an expansion of the federal deduction for state and local taxes. Photo: Eric Lee/Bloomberg
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday touted the U.S. Justice Department’s efforts to counter corporate crime, emphasizing prosecutions against individuals and a crackdown on pandemic relief fraud.
“As a defense attorney, prosecutor and judge, I have also seen the Justice Department’s interest in prosecuting corporate crime wax and wane over time,” Garland said in an address to the American Bar Associations’ White Collar Crime Institute. “Today, it is waxing again.”
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