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The 40th American Bar Association White Collar Crime Conference took place on March 5th to 7th, 2025 in Miami and was again loaded over a number of US criminal implementation topics with a timely discussion. Axinn Partners Dan Oakes and James Attridge accepted and shared the following important highlights:

• Withdrawal from Doj executors. As reported by Bloomberg Law, the conference made a detour even before it began as various high -ranking Ministry of Justice (“doj”), which had rejected participation in the event at the last minute. A number of panels in which high -ranking officials would have been presented remained after vacancies. It is even more important that conference participants could not benefit from the occasion that traditionally used Doj Brass to announce enforcement priorities, to explain recent decisions and guidelines and to interact with the participants. The DOJ has not communicated a reason for the leans that may be related to the reported travel restrictions or the flood of budget cuts in Washington.
• Implementation of antitrust rights. Antrust was highlighted in a panel discussion on Wednesday morning – connected to an empty chair on the stage for absent government participants. There, a group of former antitrust law discussed a number of questions.
  • The enforcement of criminal antitrust rights probably remains a priority of the cartel department (provided the budget allows it). As discussed in our newsletter from 2025 conspiracy theories, the government's contract department should continue as a priority together with consumer markets such as technology, healthcare, agriculture, financial services, basic consumer foods and infrastructure. The discussion participants discussed the success and the continued expansion of the Procurement Collusion strike towers (“PCSF”), which has achieved repeated prosecutors since its foundation under the first Trump government.
  • Section 2 Criminal monopoly is also an area that probably receives additional attention. While these cases seem difficult to win due to the specific intentions and other evidence requirements in the procedure, the Doj has achieved seven such plea agreements since its recent revival, including five announced this week.
• Supreme Court. Despite the lack of executors, the conference of the white collar was not without a star power. On Thursday there was a presentation between the honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson, the associated judge of the United States's Supreme Court, and her former classmate of the legal faculty Ismail Ramsey, who became the former US lawyer of the northern district of California. Judge Jackson discussed her experiences and traditions of the Supreme Court Trump against United Statesand their love for (and potential future career in) acting while showing their characteristic warmth and optimism. With regard to the criminal conviction of the white collar, Justice Jackson, who worked in front of his judge in the US conviction committee, supported the further revision of the convict guidelines in cases in cases of white collar to ensure that the debt of a single accused is more of the driver of the conviction, and not just the amount of money that is involved in the criminal offense.

“Fairness requires that similar defendants are treated similarly.” – Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

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