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In the last ten years, we have seen an explosion of state and federal enforcement actions against corporations, their officers and directors as well as others in the non-corporate world. The state and federal government's efforts to strengthen the regulatory process through criminal prosecutions has had a tremendous effect on business. Business regulators, with greater enforcement authority, have referred matters to state and federal prosecutors with greater frequency. The by-product of those enforcement actions, perhaps even when investigating criminal activity in the legitimate business world, is that legitimate corporations and those involved in legitimate business, often get run over by law enforcement. As a result, corporations and their officers as well as the small business operators, are constantly becoming targets or subjects of state and federal investigations. The financial incentive for state and federal investigators to focus on significant asset forfeiture as well as..

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