Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
[…] reliable sources, so the companies have been omitted. Here are the current 106 names: 1 ABM Industries Incorporated 2 Accenture PLC 3 Agilent Technologies Inc 4 Airbus Group 5 Alstom SA 6 Analogic Corporation 7 Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV 8 AstraZeneca PLC 9 Avon Products Inc 10 Barclays PLC 11 Beam Inc 12 BHP Billiton […]
Houston-based Bristow Group Inc. (formerly Offshore Logistics Inc.) settled U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges related to improper payments in Nigeria in 2002 and 2003 to lower expatriate employment taxes there. The payments to Nigerian state government officials violated the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA and Bristow’s under-reporting of its tax liabilities violated the […]
Image courtesy of F.H. BertlingNot much has changed at the F.H. Bertling Group since a former UK division and a number of top-level employees pleaded guilty. The logistics company continues to employ a corruption-convicted director, and its UK business appears to be going from strength to strength.
[…] with FCPA offenses but having no employees or agents charged by either the DOJ or SEC were: AB Volvo ABB Ltd AGA Medical Corp AGCO Ltd. Aibel Group Ltd. Akzo Nobel N.V. Aon Corporation Avery Dennison Corp. Ball Corporation Bristow Group Inc. Chevron Corp. Comverse Technology Inc Comverse Technology, Inc Con-way Inc. Daimler AG […]
The Egmont Group is part of the international infrastructure used by enforcement agencies to share information and help each other develop evidence to prosecute financial crimes, such as money laundering, tax evasion, and graft.
[…] FCPA violations. The fine-to-bribe ratio is calculated by simply dividing the total penalty a company received by the amount it bribed. Voluntary Disclosures Within the voluntary disclosure group the fine-to-bribe ratios ranged from encouragingly low (Bristow Group Inc. and Latinode Inc. stand out with a fine-to-bribe ratio of 0 and .89, respectively) to strikingly […]
The Egmont Group — Financial Intelligence Units from 151 jurisdictions, with 19 other observer organizations — issued its latest Communiqué from its meeting in Monaco last week, targeting terrorist financing.
On January 24, famed short-seller Hindenburg Research published the now infamous report on alleged massive fraud at the Adani Group. The conglomerate is run by Gautam Adani, Asia’s richest man (at the time of writing). The Indian company’s response offers an intriguing look into its ESG efforts. Hindenburg’s report, “Adani Group: How The World’s […]
[…] enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act against individuals continues. On Friday, a former executive and an ex-consultant of Willbros International Inc., a subsidiary of Houston-based Willbros Group Inc., were charged in connection with a conspiracy to bribe government officials in Nigeria and Ecuador. Former consultant Paul G. Novak, 41, was arrested on arrival […]
A judicial review decision in the High Court of England & Wales (the Court) on September 6, 2018 found that a notice served in the UK under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (a Section 2 notice) on the U.S.- based General Counsel of KBR Inc was enforceable and required the disclosure of documents held in the United States.
