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Privately held aircraft maintenance company Nordam Group Inc. will pay $2 million and enter into a three-year non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ to resolve FCPA violations.
The Tulsa, Oklahoma company and affiliates bribed ’employees of airlines created, controlled and exclusively owned by the People’s Republic of China in order to secure contracts’ from those airlines, the DOJ said Tuesday.… Continue Reading
One of the biggest banks in the world just said no — to compliance.
A report released Monday by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations describes some of HSBC’s massive compliance failures.… Continue Reading
A lot of people right now are wondering why corruption seems to be getting worse. In the New York Times last week, Eduardo Porter asked, ‘Have corporations lost whatever ethical compass they once had?… Continue Reading
We’ve reported in past posts on the important anti-bribery bill moving through the Brazilian legislature. For a description of the bill’s contents, see here; for a comparison to Brazil’s fellow BRICs, see here.… Continue Reading
The first chapter of my thesis analyzed the definitions of “foreign public official” in the FCPA and several international anti-bribery conventions. Included in the definitions are the personnel of public international organizations.… Continue Reading