The exact contours of the national security enforcement landscape under the second Trump administration are still taking shape, but one thing is clear: drug cartels and their financial networks are an enforcement priority. By promising to exercise the sanctions authorities of the U.S. Departments of State and Treasury, revising the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) charging policies, and reassigning prosecutors, the administration's vow to pursue cartels portend an increase in cartel-related enforcement actions. That [...]

The exact contours of the national security enforcement landscape under the second Trump administration are still taking shape, but one thing is clear: drug cartels and their financial networks are an enforcement priority. By promising to exercise the sanctions authorities of the U.S. Departments of State and Treasury, revising the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) charging policies, and reassigning prosecutors, the administration's vow to pursue cartels portend an increase in cartel-related enforcement actions. That [...]

Last week, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida sentenced Joel Esquenazi, the former president of Miami-based Terra Telecommunications Corp., to an unprecedented 15 years in prison. In August, Esquenazi and a former executive vice president of Terra, Carlos Rodriguez, were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), substantive FCPA violations, and money laundering associated with paying bribes to officials [...]