Quiz Results: How well do you know the FCPA?
Harry Cassin
June 16, 2020
The FCPA Blog received over 2,500 responses to last week’s quiz. How did you compare with the rest of the community? Here are the results.… Continue Reading
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When fighting kleptocrats, civil actions are still a potent weapon
Angela Barkhouse
June 16, 2020
Someone recently told me that it was more important “optically” to prosecute corruption than to focus on recovering assets. Yet history tells us that prosecutions for kleptocracy are rare. And even when convictions happen, the merry-go-round of politicians prosecuted for graft, only to be released after the next elections, is nothing short of a tragic comedy.… Continue Reading
Jet reportedly linked to OPL245 oil deal seized by Nigeria’s asset recovery lawyers
Martin Kenney
June 15, 2020
Nigeria has moved to ground a luxury private jet that a former oil minister purchased by allegedly using his illicit cut of a $1.3 billion oil deal. The Nigerian government’s asset recovery lawyers seized the aircraft after it landed at Montreal-Trudeau airport towards the end of last month.… Continue Reading
How well do you know the FCPA?
The FCPA Blog
June 12, 2020
Take the FCPA Blog’s 60-second quiz to test your knowledge of the FCPA. You can take the quiz as many times as you want, and all results are anonymous. Compete with your friends and colleagues to see who can score the highest.… Continue Reading
Job: Vice President & Associate General Counsel
The FCPA Blog
June 11, 2020
Job Title: Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Employer: MicroStrategy Incorporated
Location: Tysons, Virginia USA… Continue Reading
Yes, let’s use FCPA enforcement proceeds to fund overseas anti-corruption initiatives
Andy Spalding
June 11, 2020
Call it fragmented supply-side enforcement. It’s where we are now in the historical development of anti-bribery enforcement. If you believe that anti-bribery enforcement should reduce global corruption, then this is a major problem.… Continue Reading
At Large: It’s party time for SEC whistleblowers. Is the Supreme Court about to spoil the fun?
Richard L. Cassin
June 10, 2020
This year the SEC has already awarded $114 million to whistleblowers, nearly twice the amount than for all of 2019. Three awards in 2020 are among the ten biggest SEC payouts ever, including last week’s $50 million award to a former BNY Mellon currency trader.… Continue Reading
Why behavioral risk skyrockets when employees work from home
Vera Cherepanova
June 9, 2020
While we are trying to predict what the world will look like when the Covid-19 pandemic finally recedes, it is becoming clear already that after the outbreak is over, many of us will still be working from home.… Continue Reading
Keeping brand values intact when the sky is falling
Richard Bistrong
June 8, 2020
Last week I talked with Denise Lee Yohn, author of the bestseller, FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies. She’s one of America’s best-known branding consultants and speakers, with a client list that includes Sony, Frito-Lay, and Burger King.… Continue Reading
Companies are part of the solution with conditional non-debarment
Jonathan Shapiro
June 8, 2020
International financial institutions, like the World Bank, play an increasingly important role in confronting companies and individuals who revert to unethical and unlawful conduct to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.… Continue Reading
At Large: Is this the most important change in the DOJ’s new guidance?
Richard L. Cassin
June 4, 2020
The DOJ’s new guidance for evaluating corporate compliance programs put the spotlight on organizational justice, or what we might simply call fairness.… Continue Reading
Five ways the SFO needs to reform, from an ex-SFO prosecutor
Bill Waite
June 3, 2020
I do not like criticizing the UK Serious Fraud Office. Its staff are exceptionally committed, and it has a very tough mandate. But my experience of building a global consultancy over 20 years is that hard messages sometimes need to be given, and a failure to deliver the message is demonstrative of personal as well as organizational failure and risks greater harm.… Continue Reading