Perspective
Dec. 24, 2015
Will the 'Yates memo' affect Antitrust Division plea policy?
When a corporation agrees to plead guilty to an antitrust crime, the DOJ's long-standing practice has been to enter into a plea agreement that protects all of the corporation's executives and employees from prosecution with just a handful of exceptions, a practice that seems to conflict with the Yates memo. By Peter Huston
When a corporation agrees to plead guilty to an antitrust crime the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division's long-standing practice has been to enter into a plea agreement that protects all but a handful of the corporation's executives and employees from prosecution. This practice appears to conflict with the department-wide policy announced this fall in the so-called "Yates memo" on "Individual Accountability for Corporate Wr...
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