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[…] Claims Act settlement. Kelvin Carlisle, a competitor in the ambulance services business in San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles County, filed a qui tam lawsuit with allegations of illegal kickbacks. The DOJ took over the suit. The settling defendants together will pay more than $11.5 million to resolve the allegations. They include two San […]
[…] Como and the Aston Martin in the garage, the greatest perk that comes from tending this garden is hearing from so many talented experts in the field of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Last week, for example, a generous reader shared with us a soon-to-be published paper about Facilitating Payments. Seeing our favorite FCPA […]
When 2017 began, I did not envisage how my life would change. I live and work in the British Virgin islands (BVI), a location rapidly becoming famous due to the publication of the Panama Papers and more latterly the Paradise Papers.
China’s Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) recently issued a judicial interpretation of the “Regulation on Open Government Information” (“OGI Regulation”), the regulation adopted by the Chinese government in April 2007 in an effort to make government information more accessible to the general public in China.
Photo courtesy of angelinasondakh.blogs.comIn Indonesia, even a former beauty queen is corrupt.
Readers of the FCPA Blog know that money-laundering conspiracy charges are often part of white collar prosecutions. That’s because it’s hard to commit most other white collar crimes without also committing money laundering.
Criminals are betting on sports events and laundering $140 billion each year, a report written by a think-tank and Sorbonne University (Paris) said on Thursday, exposing a lack of effective regulation to keep such crimes from spreading.
Mexico City-based law firm Litigio Estratégico y Compliance has translated the Second Edition of A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act into Spanish. The FCPA Resource Guide was originally published in November 2012 and was updated in July 2020. The Second Edition of A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices […]
1 / 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, VS. § § § § § § § CR IMINAL NO. 4:17 -CR -00514 LUIS CARLOS DE LEON -PEREZ, et al. , Defendants. THE COURT’S OM NIBUS MEMORANDUM ADDRESSING THE DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS I. INTRODUCTION Before […]
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Wednesday it fined Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. $4.2 million after a subsidiary based in Turkey knowingly violated OFAC’s sanctions against Iran. The Berkshire subsidiary — Iscar Kesici Takim Ticareti ve Imalati Limited Sirket (Iscar Turkey) — exported 144 shipments of cutting tools worth about $383,000 […]
