Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. I hope you had a happy and restful Thanksgiving. We’re back today with a Kenneth-heavy edition of the newsletter as we recap Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite’s recent comments on corporate enforcement and detail Kenneth Wainstein’s hefty Davis Polk pay. Thanks for reading, and please get in touch with tips and feedback. Contact me at [email protected] and @AGoudsward on Twitter.
Kenneth Polite Addresses DOJ White-Collar Agenda
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite has had varied roles in his roughly 20-year legal career: white-collar defense attorney, U.S. attorney in New Orleans, corporate compliance officer and now the head of the criminal division at Main Justice.