On April 29, 2010 the US Sentencing Commission (the Commission) submitted to Congress important amendments to the US Sentencing Guidelines regarding the sentencing of organizations.
US Sentencing Commission approves proposed amendments to federal sentencing guidelines for organizations and expands and clarifies the role of corporate compliance and ethics programs in organizational sentencing
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