Justice Priorities: Tariffs and Traffickers The Expert Practitioner

The Expert Practitioner cited a Morgan Lewis LawFlash written by partners Mike Huneke, Sandra Moser, Martha Stolley, Katie Hilferty, and Casey Weaver, and associate Cassandra Hastie, in an article about how the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Trade Fraud Task Force plans to operate.

Quoting from the LawFlash, which recapped DOJ Criminal Division Senior Counsel Cody Herche’s comments at the American Conference Institute’s annual anticorruption conference, the article notes that the DOJ is now using a “data-driven” approach modeled on DOJ’s health care fraud playbook to uncover criminal tariff evasion schemes. The publication added that the key takeaway is that trade compliance should be treated as a potential criminal liability risk, not just a civil or administrative matter.

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