Harry Cassin
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Richard L. Cassin
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Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
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Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Our good fortune here at the FCPA Blog is to be able to think and talk about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It’s not perfect — no human law is. But it makes a difference in the world by exposing and punishing public bribery. Fighting graft is the right thing to do. Corruption means public […]
Congress could not have been any clearer in its statutory design. Nor the SEC any more outspoken in its revitalized approach to government enforcement. Whistleblower rewards work. Even more, they are an indispensable component of the modern regulatory scheme.
After several delays, the first trial of Najib Razak, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, began on April 3rd. He is accused of plundering the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), which he set up to drive the development efforts in Malaysia. This represents a stunning reversal in fortune for Najib Razak who after ruling for nearly a decade was handily defeated in the elections last year amid allegations of massive corruption.
For the FCPA community (and the entire human race), 2020 was a You’ve-Got-to-be-Kidding-Me year. But for our top stories, let’s jump past the pandemic and straight to the FCPA, and more specifically to three aspects of enforcement — the Good, the Bad, and the Missing.
A comment last week from Huffington Post blogger Andrew Woods asked whether the reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act should be extended to ban payments to local security forces. Our post about it is here. We’ve now heard from several readers, and nearly all were skeptical. The note below (which we’ve edited slightly for […]
In the world of anti-corruption internal controls, there is no “one-size-fits-all” model. Ideally, design and implementation of such controls should be thoughtful, rigorous and based on a robust and re-performable corruption risk assessment.
A U.S. State Department official said corruption is hurting Nigeria’s efforts to end the insurgency in the north east that’s now destabilizing the entire country.
Put 30 anti-corruption professionals from diverse countries in an academic classroom for three days, and the human mind goes to new places. Here’s a question that arose during my recent stint at the International Anti-Corruption Academy which we asked but could not answer. Can anyone?
After reading my publisher and editor’s post demonstrating the wonders of ChatGPT, I tried it for myself. Registration was simple — verify your email address, click a box to show you’re human, enter a code sent to your phone number, create a password. With registration complete, type a question (no capital letters or punctuation needed). […]
Will ours be the time when international public corruption is finally tossed into the garbage can of history? There are plenty of reasons to think so.
