Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader warns to Bloomberg Law that predicting the future of white collar criminal enforcement may become difficult given the Trump administration’s latest overhaul of law enforcement priorities and pardons of several U.S. executives.
The Trump administration’s overhaul of law enforcement priorities is presenting an opportunity and a source of angst for the white-collar defense bar.
Lawyers are seizing on diminished foreign bribery and crypto enforcement in an attempt to get their clients’ cases dropped or reconsidered.
But those shifts, combined with White House pardons of several US executives, are also creating uncertainty about what shape corporate and financial enforcement will take in the coming years and how access could influence it.
“This administration does not play by the usual rules when it comes to the Justice Department,” Fordham University law professor Cheryl Bader said. “Predicting the future of white collar criminal enforcement may be difficult and will likely turn on factors that are more politically based than career prosecutors are used to.”
Read “Trump White-Collar Shift Offers Opening for Defense Attorneys” in Bloomberg Law.