Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. In your inbox this week: The pandemic is unearthing past corporate misconduct and giving rise to fraud against federal relief programs. For federal regulators and whistleblower lawyers, that’s meant more tips. Plus: Arnold & Porter registers as a “foreign agent” for Ecuador, and the return of President-elect Joe Biden to the White House comes with expectations of stepped up white-collar enforcement.

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