As Kenneth Polite steps down this month as the head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, he will leave behind a flurry of major corporate settlements that he told Reuters in an exit interview will hit federal court dockets soon.
Polite said the department's recent corporate investigations involved "much larger schemes and activities."
As the head of the Criminal Division, Polite oversaw investigations on everything from gun-trafficking and human smuggling, to ransomware attacks and financial fraud. One such example is a new pilot program in which the DOJ will agree to decrease corporate fines for companies if they agree to "claw back" compensation from individual wrongdoers.
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