Under President Donald Trump, federal prosecutors across the country will be spending a lot more time on street crime and a lot less on white-collar crime, according to criminal law experts.

Certain laws governing business dealings, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, will likely be seeing less attention as the Department of Justice focuses on cracking down on drug- and gun-related crimes, members of the American Bar Association’s criminal justice section said at the association’s midyear meeting in Miami.

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