On October 27, 2026, the Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $1,529,685 settlement with Extreme Networks, Inc., a North Carolina-based AI and cloud networking provider with more than 2,800 employees in 29 countries, over nine apparent violations of the Ukraine-/Russia-Related Sanctions Regulations. The Department of Justice announced a parallel non-prosecution agreement the same day. This is a case about a company that had a...

At a third-party risk management and supply chain conference in Chicago on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva, who has led the Justice Department’s Criminal Division since December 2025, delivered a message aimed squarely at boards and chief executives: fund compliance properly, and when it finds something, come to the Department early. The remarks, made in a fireside chat and reported...

When budgets tighten, compliance is often among the first functions to feel the squeeze. The pitch is familiar: it produces no revenue, the enforcement environment has eased, and a leaner team can do the same work with better tools. Some of those points have a grain of truth. Technology can make compliance more efficient. But the underlying premise, that compliance is overhead to be minimized,...

A dangerous misreading has taken hold in many boardrooms. Because the current administration paused and narrowed Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, the argument goes, enforcement risk in general has dropped, and compliance spending can drop with it. That reasoning confuses one statute with the whole landscape. The administration has not stopped enforcing the law. It has reassigned enforcement resources toward priorities defined by national security...