President Joe Biden celebrated the passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, proclaiming the package will be a “blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America.” As with other federal funding programs, this bill will increase white-collar enforcement affecting numerous sectors and industries.
Whenever significant federal funding enters the economy, fraud follows. The numerous sectors and enforcement areas implicated by the new law means that companies should revisit and, if necessary, revamp their corporate compliance policies consistent with this and other existing Department of Justice guidance.
Companies and individuals must be mindful of increased scrutiny in the below areas of procurement, bid rigging, energy pricing, tax and financing, and more.
The Department of Justice announced a Procurement Collusion Strike Force, an interagency partnership to investigate and prosecute antitrust crimes and related schemes that target government procurement, grants, and program funding at all levels of government.
The Fraud Section of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, the Antitrust Division, and U.S. attorney’s offices...
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