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
Ericsson: Some executives acted ‘in bad faith for illegitimate purposes’
In a statement Friday about its recent $1 billion FCPA resolution, Swedish telecom Ericsson made some frank admissions about its bad actors, and provided rare
Where is your MLK street?
Here in Austin, the street named for Martin Luther King Jr. isn’t what I expected. Unlike most of the dozen or so MLK streets I’d
Ten-year fugitive extradited for airline cargo price-fixing conspiracy
The DOJ extradited a 65-year-old Dutch woman who was indicted in 2010 for being part of a conspiracy to fix prices in the global air
London: New data leak exposes owners of 400,000 anonymous companies
Millions of documents leaked from a corporate services firm with a posh London address are helping journalists unmask owners of secret offshore companies and the
Lori Loughlin: How ‘clearing her name’ could ruin her life
Lori Loughlin wants to clear her name. She hopes to convince a jury she’s innocent of the three charges against her in the college admissions
California company discloses new FCPA investigation
A natural foods and bio tech firm said Thursday that practices at a company it acquired in Mexico have triggered DOJ and SEC investigations into
2019 FCPA Enforcement Index
[Last year 16 companies paid a record $2.89 billion to resolve FCPA cases. That includes amounts assessed in resolutions with the DOJ or SEC or both, and through DOJ declinations with disgorgement.
Why FCPA scoreboards can be so different
In early December, when Assistant AG Brian Benczkowski summarized the year’s FCPA enforcement scoreboard against individuals, he surprised just about everyone.
The top three FCPA stories of 2019
I’ll sum up my three biggest FCPA stories of the year this way: Enforcement, enforcement, enforcement.
Here’s the ‘agent’ instruction from US v. Hoskins
It made sense for Lawrence Hoskins to challenge whether the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could apply to him. He had worked for Alstom SA, a