Nicole Sprinzen, vice chair of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice, spoke with Law360 about the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s increased reliance on advanced data analytics and data-mining whistleblowers to detect fraud.

DOJ Civil Division’s FOCUS (fraud oversight through careful use of statistics) initiative will "undoubtedly have an impact on criminal enforcement as well, both informally and because of the explicit DOJ instruction that the Civil and Criminal Divisions should ensure that they are simultaneously informed of matters in which they have an interest," said Nicole. "This has become a full-time job for some data analysts. So there is financial motivation and there is definitely an increased pressure that companies are going to feel," she added.

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