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U.S. revises guidelines on white collar crime probes

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department announced new guidelines on Thursday for investigating corporate crime cases, following criticism that prosecutors have gone too far in pressing companies to cooperate with criminal probes and restricted individual defendants' rights. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/Reuters/domesticNews?a=Xuwql8"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/Reuters/domesticNews?i=Xuwql8" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?a=VzG6lK"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?i=VzG6lK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?a=ehB20k"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?i=ehB20k" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?a=dkDVUk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?i=dkDVUk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/domesticNews/~4/377626044" height="1" width="1"/>