Compliance officers will want to keep a copy of the table below close at hand. What better way to answer those who insist that the FCPA is small potatoes, after all, when you look at the relatively few enforcement actions over the past 33 years.
Here are the 22 men (no women so far), most of them former company executives, who’ve spent time in prison for FCPA-related convictions. Each name that follows represents a terrible tragedy, often with permanent damage extending to families. As the compiler of the list said: “By my count there have been 187 people charged with violating the FCPA. This list will look a little different at the end of the year.”
We’d like to thank the generous individual responsible for this post, but that’s not possible. He or she has asked to remain anonymous, making this contribution pro bono publico.
The information is compiled from the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator. Readers with suggestions and corrections are welcome to let us know.
| Name | Related Company | Register # | Age Race Sex | Release Date | Location |
| FERNANDO MAYA BASURTO | ABB Ltd | 39135-177 | 48-White-M | UNKNOWN | HOUSTON FDC |
| CHARLES PAUL EDWARD JUMET | Ports Engineering Consultants Corporation | 75638-083 | 53-White-M | UNKNOWN | NOT IN BOP CUSTODY |
| SULEIMAN A NASSAR | Lockheed | 45723-019 | 73-White-M | 11/19/1996 | RELEASED |
| DAVID H MEAD | Saybolt | 79529-079 | 72-White-M | 7/21/1999 | RELEASED |
| HERBERT STEINDLER | General Electric | 02423-061 | 71-White-M | 3/13/2000 | RELEASED |
| HERBERT LAWRENCE TANNENBAUM | Tanner Management Corp | 82537-054 | 85-White-M | 4/20/2000 | RELEASED |
| RICHARD G PITCHFORD | Central Asia American Enterprise Fund | 26036-016 | 75-White-M | 12/4/2003 | RELEASED |
| ROBERT RICHARD KING | Owl Securities and Investments | 14447-045 | 76-White-M | 6/30/2006 | RELEASED |
| STEVEN LYNWOOD HEAD | Titan | 95321-198 | 63-White-M | 9/29/2008 | RELEASED |
| YAW OSEI AMOAKO | ITXC Corporation | 60267-050 | 58-Black-M | 12/17/2008 | RELEASED |
| PAUL GRAYSON NOVAK | Willbros | 43505-279 | 43-White-M | 12/19/2008 | RELEASED |
| ROGER MICHAEL YOUNG | ITXC Corporation | 29574-016 | 49-White-M | 4/10/2009 | RELEASED |
| STEVEN JOSEPH OTT | ITXC Corporation | 60540-050 | 50-White-M | 6/17/2009 | RELEASED |
| RAMENDRA BASU | World Bank | 29254-016 | 47-White-M | 8/7/2009 | RELEASED |
| FAHEEM MOUSA SALAM | 28567-016 | 32-White-M | 1/7/2010 | RELEASED | |
| MISAO HIOKI | Bridgestone | 90290-111 | 56-Asian-M | 11/23/2010 | LOMPOC USP |
| DAVID KAY | American Rice | 13749-179 | 58-White-M | 1/27/2011 | TEXARKANA FCI |
| JIM BOB BROWN | Willbros | 66158-179 | 48-White-M | 1/29/2011 | ATLANTA USP |
| CHRISTIAN SAPSIZIAN | Alcatel SA | 78172-004 | 63-White-M | 3/18/2011 | NE OHIO CORR CTR CI |
| JASON EDWARD STEPH | Willbros | 36444-177 | 40-White-M | 3/28/2011 | EL RENO FCI |
| DOUGLAS MURPHY | American Rice | 13987-179 | 53-White-M | 12/31/2012 | EL RENO FCI |
| SHU QUAN-SHENG | AMAC International | 58250-083 | 69-Asian-M | 2/18/2013 | LA TUNA FCI |
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