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On January 16, 2026, the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a video on social media announcing that the Department of War will conduct a “line‑by‑line review of every small business, sole source, 8(a) contract that is over $20 million,” focusing on impermissible pass‑throughs to large businesses.  This action by the DoW aligns with broader…

On Jan. 8, 2026, the White House announced the establishment of the DOJ’s Division for National Fraud Enforcement. The Trump administration stated that the new division will “combat the rampant and pervasive problem of fraud in the United States” and “enforce the Federal criminal and civil laws against fraud targeting Federal government programs, Federally funded…

On December 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a multifaceted data-driven operation to address potential money laundering, focused on more than 100 U.S. money services businesses (MSBs) operating along the southwest border. MSBs are non-bank financial institutions that provide certain financial services, including money transmission, check cashing,…

The Senate has introduced the Streamlining Transaction Reporting and Ensuring Anti-Money Laundering Improvements for a New Era Act, or the STREAMLINE Act, an initiative led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Senator John Kennedy, with support from several Republican co-sponsors.

For the first time in over five decades, the bill would modernize…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has recently taken two steps in furtherance of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda.  In late September, FinCEN posted a notice to the Federal Register soliciting comments on a proposed “Survey of the Costs of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Compliance” to be completed by non-bank…

California SB 82 — a bill that seeks to end “infinite” arbitration clauses and limit the scope of consumer arbitration agreements to the “use, payment, or provision of the good, service, money, or credit provided by that consumer use agreement” — was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 6, 2025. SB 82…

In a significant step toward strengthening consumer privacy protections, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) board adopted a comprehensive set of updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act regulations. These long-anticipated regulations — covering cybersecurity audits, risk assessments and automated decision-making technology — mark a pivotal shift in the state’s data privacy enforcement landscape. CPPA staff…

On August 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a report analyzing Medicare billing practices for remote patient monitoring (“RPM”) services during 2024. As RPM technologies have matured and become more accessible, their availability has driven widespread adoption and enhanced patient care by enabling continuous, data-informed…

After years of waiting, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) posted to the Federal Register for public inspection on September 9, 2025, a final rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC 2.0) standards into the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) (the Final Rule), which was formally published a day later on September…