Richard L. Cassin | Editor at large
Richard L. Cassin is the founder of the FCPA Blog. He serves as editor at large.
He has been named multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. He was named a Trust Across America 2019 Top Thought Leader in Trust.
Cassin’s articles about corruption and compliance have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Times (Singapore), New England Law Review, and many other leading publications. His opinions about FCPA enforcement have been cited recently by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, Variety, Bloomberg’s news wire, Reuters, NPR, Fox News, CNN, and others.
He was a senior partner in a major international law firm and the head of its Asia practice.
Recent Posts
New List: The FCPA Top 40
Here’s the FCPA Blog’s list of the 40 biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolutions of all time.
Ericsson’s FCPA disgorgement is second biggest. But is it legal?
Last week’s $1.06 billion blockbuster resolution by Sweden’s Ericsson included disgorgement to the SEC of $540 million. By our count that’s the second biggest disgorgement
Ericsson jolts the FCPA top ten list
Stockholm-based Ericsson cracked our top ten list Friday with a $1 billion mega-settlement that landed at number two.
Ericsson pays $1 billion to resolve FCPA violations
Swedish telecom Ericsson agreed Friday to pay the DOJ and SEC over $1 billion in one of the biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions
U.S. Bank Regulators: Hemp growers aren’t always ‘suspicious’
Four federal agencies and state bank regulators said Tuesday that banks are no longer required to file suspicious activity reports for customers solely because they’re
Trending: Juries convict six FCPA defendants in rare trials
FCPA-related jury trials are rare. In some years there might be one but in many years there are none. This year, however, there were three,
UK Enforcement: Alstom unit fined $21 million for overseas bribes
The SFO’s decade-long investigation of Paris-based Alstom ended Monday with the sentencing of a UK subsidiary for bribery in Tunisia.
OFAC: Apple’s faulty screening caused 47 sanctions violations
Apple, Inc. agreed Monday to pay $467,000 to settle violations of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations after its screening tool failed to detect a
Jury convicts Mark Lambert on FCPA and related charges
The former president of a Maryland-based transportation company was convicted Friday of bribing a Russian official in exchange for contracts to deliver nuclear materials to
Samsung Heavy Industries pays $75 million to resolve FCPA offenses
One of the world’s biggest shipbuilders agreed Friday to pay $75 million in total penalties to resolve criminal FCPA offenses in Brazil.