News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance
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On his great Conflict of Interest Blog, Jeff Kaplan posted the ten biggest U.S. corporate criminal fines of all time.
They add up to more than $6.75 billion.
What’s striking, Jeff says, ‘is that fully half of the ten largest federal corporate criminal fines in history were imposed or agreed to in 2012.’… Continue Reading
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone said this week a bribery case brewing in Germany could end his nearly 40-year reign over the world’s premier motor sport.
He told the Telegraph the current owners of F1, private equity firm CVC, ‘will probably be forced to get rid of me if the Germans come after me.… Continue Reading