Mayling Blanco Katey Fardelmann

August 15, 2024 | New York Law Journal

In fraud and corruption cases, the Supreme Court and the US government are marching in opposite directions. The DOJ continues to embrace new tools from Congress and the White House—including a newly-passed anti-corruption law—while the Supreme Court has increasingly cut back on the DOJ's broad theories of prosecution. This article examines the implications from the Court's latest opinion, Snyder v. United States, which, if applied to other bribery statutes, could severely limit the DOJ's view that gifts to government officials are no different than bribes.

By Mayling Blanco, Katey Fardelmann, Sarah Perlin and Andrey Spektor

8 minute read

April 09, 2024 | New York Law Journal

This article discusses the recently enacted Foreign Extortion Prevention Act, which—unlike the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act—focuses on the demand-side of bribe payments. But will FEPA also create more potential exposure for U.S. entities? What should U.S. companies do today to prepare?

By Mayling Blanco, Katey Fardelmann and Lucy Hoffman

8 minute read

June 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Although government enforcers plainly remain undeterred, reckoning with these thorny legal issues introduces additional complications to any enforcement action. To cut the Gordian knot, New York prosecutors increasingly take a different tack: charging defendants in the cryptocurrency space under neutral statutes that do not require the government to prove that the asset in question is a security or commodity.

By Mayling Blanco, Katey Fardelmann and Matthew Niss

10 minute read