Baruch Weiss

Leah Motzkin’s articles from Arnold & Porter are most popular: in European Union There's no better place than California — the heart of U.S. earthquake country — to hold a panel on seismic shifts. Luckily, the physical ground out here seems pretty stable as we are writing this, even though the white collar enforcement landscape feels like it's undergoing a quake that's pretty high up there on the Richter scale. Frightened?

The next wave of money laundering enforcement has a new center of gravity: the drug cartels. The Trump administration has made the cartels a national security priority, and that focus is reshaping every corner of anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement. Wednesday morning's panel at the ABA White Collar Crime Institute here in San Diego included counsel from across the border in Mexico — and for good reason. The cartel piece of this story is no longer just a U.S. problem.

Given the importance of cellphones to modern life, gaining access to a suspect's phone is generally a top priority for law enforcement. But once "seized," a phone's security measures may present an obstacle for government authorities who then seek to "search" the phone's contents. While law enforcement can ask the phone's owner to provide the password, they (generally) cannot compel the person to do so without running afoul of the Fifth Amendment.