News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance
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
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
Thomas Friedman taught us that the world is flat — that globalization has created a playing field more level than at any time in history. And however true that may be of international commerce, it is not true of anti-corruption enforcement .… Continue Reading
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Montreal filed criminal charges against two former senior SNC-Lavalin executives on Friday.
Stephane Roy, a former vice-president at SNC-Lavalin, was charged with fraud, bribing a foreign public official, and contravening a United Nations economic measures act related to Libya.… Continue Reading
The team effort known as the FCPA Blog had a banner month in January — more than 80,000 unique visitors and over 430,000 page views.
That means during the past year, more than 700,000 unique visitors racked up some 4.1 million page views.… Continue Reading
A businessman who told a bank that his partners in a phony diamond processing operation were Armenia’s prime minister and archbishop was arrested Friday in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on charges of money laundering.… Continue Reading
The former chief of Quebec’s most powerful labor union and its billion-dollar pension fund denied being influenced by expensive gifts from a construction boss.
Michel Arsenault, left, the president of the Quebec Federation of Labour from 2007 until 2013, said during four days of testimony last week to a government panel that he returned expensive gifts to businessman Tony Accurso and paid for a $100,000 home renovation himself.… Continue Reading