Sessions: U.S. will pursue corporate fraud cases

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed Monday not to diminish the Justice Department’s focus on corporate fraud, asserting that a vigorous interest in violent crime and illegal immigration would not diminish its long-standing mission to prosecute white-collar offenders.

“These laws are in place for a reason,” he told a conference of attorneys in Washington. When they are broken, it has real consequences in peoples’ lives.”

Sessions also pledged that the Justice Department would aggressively enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it a crime for businesses to pay bribes to foreign officials.

In the past, Trump has criticized the anti-bribery statute, saying it was “a horrible law’ that placed U.S. businesses at a “huge disadvantage” overseas.