Two charges have been dropped against ex Sun Prairie principal Jennifer Ploeger. She agreed to plead no contest to one count of failing to report child abuse.

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The chief engineer of the cargo ship Dali that destroyed Baltimore’s ...

Price-fixing, bribery, and fraud are leading forms of corporate crime. Since the early 2000s, deferred or non-prosecution agreements (D/NPAs) have increasingly been used in the U.S. and elsewhere to ...

Offshore tax evasion has been a point of emphasis for the U.S. tax authorities for the last twenty years. The IRS and the Tax Division of the Department of Justice (referred to as "DOJ-TAX") has ...

Former NFL cornerback Richard Sherman has resolved a pending legal issue. Via Brady Henderson of ESPN.com, Sherman has received a deferred prosecution in a pending DUI case. The outcome suspends the ...

"Stronger compliance is needed to actually fix entrenched misconduct," said Brandon Garrett, author of "Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations." The Department of Justice's ...

The authors write "Corporate deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) have become a key part of white-collar criminal enforcement. With a DPA, a company can resolve a criminal investigation without a ...

A recent ruling from a federal district judge in Texas has called into question the finality of deferred prosecution agreements. Deferred prosecution agreements are negotiated and entered into by the ...