The SEC has stepped up trading suspensions of stocks when it believes company information is “inaccurate or unreliable”. The SEC points to internet promotions and social media posts that claim certain products can “prevent, detect, or cure coronavirus” such…

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received nearly 4,000 COVID-19 related complaints alleging fraud according to a press release. Many of these COVID-19 scams relate to websites advertising fake vaccines and cures, operating fraudulent charity drives, or…

On March 26, 2020, Attorney General William Barr sent a memorandum to the federal Bureau of Prisons to expand the use of home confinement  as a response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in order to mitigate the spread of…