Today, we're proud to report that we have ingested over 700 new cases into the Registry. You can find a list of all the new entries here: https://corporate-prosecution-registry.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/media/20201117-new.csv The large number of cases is the result of a multi-month effort to double-check our collection. To do this, we obtained a list of every federal district court criminal case going back as far back as PACER allowed. The resulting list had over 1.2 million entries. Going through each of these one-by-one to find corporate names is a nightmare and our usual search qu…

We recently had the pleasure of talking with the Corporate Crime Reporter regarding the genesis and recent work on the Registry. It was great timing, as we've put in a fair bit of effort lately to update the site's infrastructure to accommodate an ever-growing list of entities. Jon also discussed recent FOIA requests for a dozen undisclosed non-prosecution agreements and a list of all such agreements the DOJ has struck. That effort is still in process.

If you've wondered why the Registry hasn't been updated for awhile, there's a reason. Over the past several months we've updated the infrastructure hosting the site to something that will accommodate future growth; corporate crime doesn't seem to be stopping. In technical terms we've migrated from a home-grown collection of Python scripts that generate a static, flat-file website to Django, a Python web framework with a SQL back-end. While the site looks the same, these changes will enable us to input and update records faster and provide an easier path to doing fun things with the data li…

Yesterday, the Wash. Post reported on a decline in corporate immigration enforcement, citing to the Duke / UVA Registry. “Prosecuting corporations, as opposed to individual workers or managers, for immigration-related offenses was also relatively rare during the Obama administration, but it has slowed further under the Trump administration, according to a database maintained by Duke University and the University of Virginia and data reviewed by The Washington Post. The Corporate Prosecution Registry tracks cases in which companies, rather than individuals, are charged with violating fed…

A new article, forthcoming in the American Criminal Law Review, develops new data from the last two years of the Duke / UVA Corporate Crime Registry. It is now available on SSRN here. A description of the findings: Two years into the Trump Administration, newly collected data allows one to assess what impact a series of new policies have had on corporate enforcement. To provide a snapshot comparison, in its last 20 months, the Obama Administration levied $14.15 billion in total corporate penalties—with 71 financial institutions and 34 public companies prosecuted. During the Trump Adminis…