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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on September 25, 2007 two settled enforcement actions based on violations of the books and records provisions of
Paradigm B.V., a Houston-based oil and gas services provider, entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve payments that violated
The text of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act sets out three types of payments to foreign officials that are lawful — facilitating payments, promotional expenses
The affirmative defense for promotional expenses has always been a riddle, which explains why it appears so often among the Justice Department’s Opinion Procedure Releases,
Panalpina’s cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice appears to be in full swing. For starters, it is exiting the Nigeria logistics and freight forwarding
The case was full of bad facts. For nearly ten years until late 2004, some $1.8 million in bribes went to foreign officials and private
In its second Opinion Procedure Release of 2007, the Department of Justice again looked at promotional expenses. An affirmative defense in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
As the lone exception written into the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, facilitating payments have a reputation for being safe and practical. In truth, grease
Instead of our regular post today, these familiar and fitting words: No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of
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