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Cody Worthington
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Russell A. Stamets
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Eric Carlson
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Yesterday the FCPA Blog’s senior editor Jessica Tillipman talked about GW Law’s compliance training for JD candidates. She was responding to our post urging law schools to teach compliance. We’ve also heard from profs at other schools and a recent grad who’s now a compliance officer for a well-known international manufacturer.… Continue Reading
Job Title: KYC/AML Manager North America
Employer: BP Grou
Location: Houston, Texas (USA)
Description
Manage and lead the Know Your Counterparty (KYC) due diligence team across two IST business units, in fast moving and dynamic energy commodity business units, providing a high quality, timely and optimised KYC /AML due diligence procedures including the monitoring of existing counterparties for Global Oil America (GOA) and North America Gas & Power (NAGP) business units.… Continue Reading
Guangzhou Research Institute of Forestry Landscape Construction Co Ltd and Guangzhou Forest Park Landscape Design Institute have been fined $3,265 and $4,080 respectively for bribing government officials in exchange for landscaping projects.… Continue Reading
Yesterday’s post on Leslie Caldwell’s vision of the FCPA elicited a number of comments. And I do love a good back-and-forth.
The war on terror may be new, but framing the FCPA as a foreign policy tool is not.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of GW LawYesterday, my FCPA Blog colleague, Dick Cassin, posted Memo to law schools: The world needs compliance officers, in which he implored law schools to train J.D.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Bridge AuthorityA Dhaka court Monday acquitted all the seven defendants accused of taking bribes from Canandian engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin in connection with the Padma Bridge Project.… Continue Reading
Chinese private equity firm Nepoch Capital has cut connections with its co-founder He Jintao, son of the communist party’s former discipline chief He Guoqiang, after the princeling was said to be implicated in a corruption investigation, sources told Reuters.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of New England Law | BostonLaw-related employment for grads from American law schools isn’t exactly robust. In 2013, the ABA Journal said, only 57 percent of the that year’s JDs had full-time bar-passage-required jobs.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of C-Span via YoutubeAs the FCPA Blog reported last week, DOJ criminal division chief Leslie Caldwell recently gave an important talk at Duke Law School in which she laid out her vision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.… Continue Reading
More than 500 Chinese courts have joined Alibaba Group’s popular online shopping platform Taobao to sell confiscated assets of corrupt officials.
The confiscated items, including properties, cars, jewellery and stocks, are being sold by auction on sf.taobao.com… Continue Reading
Even the most ardent Francophile, as I most assuredly am, must be dismayed by France’s abysmal record of bribery prosecutions. Recent OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Working Group reports reveal France’s inexorable zero.… Continue Reading
In my prior post on Collective Action, I wrote about the importance of voluntary codes of conduct and concluded that in an era of weak regulation, corporate behaviour would have been significantly worse over the last decades without them.… Continue Reading
