Rod Rosenstein’s comment (received September 24):
Targeting corporations and imposing financial penalties that punish current shareholders
and employees is a useful tool, but it is not a complete solution for deterring corporate
wrongdoing. Those investigations take too long and rarely result in individual
prosecutions. The goals of our policy changes were to increase the incentive for
companies to implement compliance programs, disclose wrongdoing, and cooperate
when wrongdoing occurs; and to expedite federal investigations and encourage
prosecutors to pursue charges against the people responsible for corporate wrongdoing.