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Liz Aloi wrote an article entitled "How DC Circ. Ruling Permits Playacting Bribery Defense" for Law360 that discusses how a recent D.C. Circuit decision may allow public officials to avoid bribery convictions by claiming they never intended to fulfill corrupt agreements. The article examines the court’s ruling in United States v. Burke, its apparent conflict with other federal appellate decisions, and its potential impact on prosecutions, including the recent mistrial of D.C. Council member Trayon White. Liz explores whether Hobbs Act extortion charges offer prosecutors an alternative and suggests congressional action may be necessary to close this potential loophole in federal bribery law.Read the <a href="https://media2.mofo.com/v3/assets/blt5775cc69c999c255/blt7dd9c3fc58b468ee/261022-dc-circ-ruling-permits-playacting.pdf" target="_blank">full article</a>.

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Elizabeth (Liz) A. Aloi is Of Counsel in Morrison Foerster’s Investigations + White Collar Defense practice. A veteran federal prosecutor and seasoned trial lawyer, Liz has tried more than a dozen cases to verdict and spent nearly 20 years leading high-stakes criminal and civil enforcement matters at the U.S. Department of Justice.Drawing on experience across both the executive and legislative branches, Liz advises companies, boards, and executives navigating sensitive government enforcement actions and internal investigations involving financial crime, AML/Bank Secrecy Act obligations, sanctions, civil rights, and civil and criminal fraud.Before joining Morrison Foerster, Liz served as Chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. In that role, she supervised a broad enforcement docket, including civil rights offenses, procurement fraud, wire fraud, obstruction, campaign finance violations, insider trading, and other financial-crime matters. She managed complex investigations involving extensive electronic evidence, sensitive investigative techniques, and coordination with multiple federal law enforcement agencies.Earlier in her DOJ career, Liz served in various roles across the Criminal and Antitrust Divisions. As Chief of the Special Financial Investigations Unit in the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, she led multijurisdictional matters involving money laundering, BSA/AML violations, kleptocracy, cryptocurrency, illicit finance, and asset forfeiture. She also served as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division, where she prosecuted global price-fixing and procurement-fraud schemes, securing convictions of corporate and individual defendants in matters resulting in billions of dollars in criminal fines.Liz previously served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where she supported the committee’s oversight and legislative work on criminal justice, corruption, money laundering, and sentencing policy.Liz earned her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.