The Department of Justice sent a chill through corporate America by signaling its intent to use criminal investigations to root out DEI practices in the private sector.
Newly minted Attorney General Pam Bondi’s directions follow President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring federal agencies to clamp down on companies’ diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Companies and their lawyers are now looking to the DOJ memo, dispatched late Wednesday, to parse which diversity practices and what language they need to eschew as they examine everything from specific initiatives to corporate culture to their public statements.
The specter of a criminal investigation looms ...
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