Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Shruti J. Shah
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a settled enforcement against Nature’s Sunshine Products Inc. (NSP), its Chief Executive Officer Douglas Faggioli. 54, and its former Chief Financial Officer Craig D. Huff, 53.… Continue Reading
Valve-maker Control Components Inc. (CCI) of Rancho Santa Margarita, California pleaded guilty Friday to violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (15 U.S.C. §78dd-2) and the Travel Act (18 U.S.… Continue Reading
Oil and gas driller Helmerich & Payne Inc. (H&P) will pay a $1 million criminal penalty to the Justice Department to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations related to improper payments to government officials in Argentina and Venezuela.… Continue Reading
Our subject is usually corruption overseas. But it’s impossible to ignore the news these days from New Jersey. Arrested earlier this month — 44 people, including three mayors and two state legislators.… Continue Reading
Label-maker Avery Dennison Corporation, whose compliance problems in China were described in an LA Times story last January, has resolved civil and administrative charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.… Continue Reading
His defense took just two hours to present. Now, according to the Times Picayune, the jury will hear closing arguments Wednesday and begin deliberating William Jefferson’s fate. Here’s how the paper began its report of the final day of testimony:
… Continue ReadingIn a moment of courtroom drama Thursday, the prosecutors in the corruption trial of William Jefferson withdrew their objections and let the former New Orleans congressman’s attorneys play nearly 90 minutes of secretly taped recordings that the defense team said was crucial to his case.
It’s been awhile since we beat the drum about respondeat superior (here). But that’s OK. A a couple of very smart guys have been doing it for us. They’re Stanley A.
The last time we had a serious discussion about the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office was to report its thrashing in June 2008 by a former American prosecutor. Jessica de Grazia, who’d been an assistant district attorney in Manhattan for 13 years, was hired by the U.K.’s… Continue Reading
WikiLeaks — the site that publishes documents that are “classified, censored or otherwise opaque to the public record” — has posted the suppressed final report of the Turks and Caicos Islands Commission of Inquiry.… Continue Reading
Nearly everything in the court’s electronic record of James Giffen’s criminal prosecution is beyond reach. Almost 200 pleadings and orders are in the docket but only a dozen can be viewed or downloaded, and the indictment isn’t one of them.… Continue Reading
We talked earlier about the “knowledge” element of an FCPA offense and the two kinds of “knowledge” the government can prove: What the defendant actually knows and what he or she should know under the circumstances.… Continue Reading
The Chinese government this week alleged that employees of Rio Tinto bribed executives from 16 Chinese steel mills that buy its iron ore for themselves and China’s 120 steel producers. Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto is among the world’s largest iron ore miners and has been a major supplier to China’s steel industry, which is mostly state-owned.… Continue Reading
