Supervisory Examinations, Investigations & Enforcement

Read Hinshaw partner David Cole's co-authored Compliance Week guide, which provides in-house counsel and compliance professionals with best practices and practical steps for conducting internal investigations.

Michael F. Iasparro, the partner-in-charge of the firm's Rockford office, has been appointed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to serve as the next U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District.

Read an in-house compliance guide for responding to Executive Order (EO) 14209, which paused all future investigations and enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for at least 180 days.

The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that the Association of Croatian American Professionals (ACAP) has honored partner Tomislav Kuzmanovic with its 2024 ACAP Professional Excellence Award in Law, Governance, and Public Policy. He was officially recognized at the ACAP Conference Gala on Saturday, October 5, 2024, in Las Vegas.

The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that partner Tomislav Z. Kuzmanovic has been appointed to serve as Partner-in-Charge of Hinshaw's Milwaukee, Wisconsin office. Kuzmanovic will be responsible for the office's day-to-day management and strategic direction.

The U.S. law firm Hinshaw & Culbertson today announced that partner Gretchen Harris Sperry has been selected by Crain’s Chicago Business as a 2021 Notable Gen X Leader in Accounting, Consulting & Law.

Hinshaw's David S. Weinstein, a Miami-based partner and former federal prosecutor, was quoted in a Daily Business Review article titled "Razor Blades and Hit Men: Meet Miami Lawyers Who Have Defended and Represented Alleged Cartel Members." The piece addresses some of the unique aspects of being a prosecutor or criminal defense attorney when the defendant is an alleged drug cartel member.

Hinshaw's Tom Kuzmanovic—along with other members of the legal teams involved in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) trials that followed what is known as Operation Storm—presented an exclusive webinar on August 4, 2020. The program was covered by Croatia Week in an article titled "VIDEO: Lawyers for Generals Gotovina and Markač Give Overview of Operation Storm and the ICTY Trials That Followed."

Hinshaw's David S. Weinstein, a Miami-based partner and former federal prosecutor, authored a byliner titled "Fraud, Imposter Scams and Money Mule Schemes Proliferate During COVID-19," published in the Daily Business Review. The article focuses on a range of fraud schemes perpetrated on individuals and financial institutions that seek to use the COVID-19 crisis as cover.

Hinshaw attorney David S. Weinstein, a Miami-based partner and former federal prosecutor, was quoted in a New York Daily News article titled "New Ghislaine Maxwell Papers Revive Lurid Tales About 'Orgies,' Alan Dershowitz and Bill Clinton." The piece discusses newly unsealed papers in the criminal case filed against Ghislaine Maxwell, a confidante of Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is alleged to have acted as a recruiter of underage girls for Epstein, and also participated in his sexual abuse of the teens. Epstein died of an apparent suicide while facing charges of sexual abuse of minors.

Hinshaw attorney David S. Weinstein, a Miami-based partner and former federal prosecutor, was quoted in stories published by the New York Times, The Guardian and New York Daily News regarding the arrest and charging of Ghislaine Maxwell, a confidante of Jeffrey Epstein. The charges allege Maxwell acted as a recruiter of underage girls for Epstein, and also participated in his sexual abuse of the teens. Last August, Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, of an apparent suicide, while facing charges of sexual abuse of minors.

Hinshaw attorney David S. Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor, was quoted in a Law360 story titled "Start To Floyd Case Hints At Why Cops Are Rarely Convicted." Weinstein commented on local prosecutor Mike Freeman's initial criminal complaint against Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, whose death has sparked worldwide protests. Freeman has since been replaced as lead prosecutor by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and new charges have been brought against Chauvin.