July 2, 2025, 11:35 a.m. | bgarrett
The Corporate Prosecution Registry is constantly being updated – and we have just completed the addition of number of cases from recent years. We have been updating the Registry and reviewing cases from 2023 (95 cases) and 2024 (91 cases), as well as adding cases with resolutions that have occurred to date in 2025 (31 cases). We thank Duke Law research assistants Jared Danaher and Gabrielle Stratton for their hard work this past Fall. These updates were conducted by searching federal district court dockets for entries involving organizational defendants, as well as press releases reporting non-prosecution agreements and other out-of-court resolutions. We would also like to thank Prof. Eric McKee and his research assistant, Elvis Owusu, from West Texas A&M University's ANB School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance for their valuable contributions to the Registry. We hope that these additions give a useful picture of corporate prosecution resolutions towards the end of the Biden Administration, and an early sense of priorities and enforcement during the current Trump Administration. Those priorities may change further as a result of the May 25, 2025 guidance from the DOJ, setting priorities, and titled “Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against White-Collar Crime.” That memo also suggests greater leniency for cooperating and self-disclosing companies - and that pre-existing corporate prosecution agreements might be terminated early. A second memo, dated May 12, 2025, addresses selection of corporate monitors. We look forward to observing how these changes affect the composition of cases reflected on the Registry.