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Thomas Fox
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Bill Waite
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Aibel Group Ltd. of the United Kingdom pleaded guilty yesterday to violating the antibribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and failing to comply with the terms of its prior deferred prosecution agreement. It admitted making previously undisclosed illegal payments to Nigerian customs officials through its freight forwarder in return for preferential treatment. From […]
February 6, 2007 — The DOJ reports Vetco’s admission that payments to Nigerian Customs Officials violated the FCPA. The DOJ says, “These corrupt payments were paid through a major international freight forwarding and customs clearance company to employees of the Nigerian Customs Service, and coordinated largely through Vetco Gray Controls Inc.’s offices in Houston. . […]
Health care giant Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil claims arising from allegations of kickbacks to U.S. doctors and improper marketing claims about three of its prescription drugs.
Job Title: Compliance Officer
Company: Bilfinger SE
Location: Mannheim, Germany
Tasks
The Compliance Officer will lead efforts to promote compliance at all levels of Bilfinger and contribute to the continuous improvement of the compliance program and the underlying elements. She/he will support the business to implement and apply compliance-related policies, controls and procedures. The position holder will report to the Chief Compliance Officer and will be part of the global Compliance Leadership Team.
As part of its online make-over, the Justice Department has now indexed FCPA enforcement actions from mid-2004 onward. They’re listed alphabetically and can all be found on a public page called FCPA and Related Enforcement Actions. A click, for example, on United States v. BAE Systems, plc reveals the court docket number (10-CR-035-JDB) original filing […]
Peggy Ryan (Image courtesy of the James Hoyer law firm)A federal judge awarded a former sales rep for Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. $33.6 million as her share of a False Claims Act settlement.
In a recent post, the FCPA Professor questioned the broad application of the label “declination” to any instance of FCPA scrutiny that does not result in an FCPA enforcement action.
Why did one company escape prosecution in the Panalpina case when most of its peers did not? Here’s the story.
Here’s a chilling warning to company lawyers who may become involved in FCPA investigations.
Disgorging profits is a common and prominent feature these days in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last year Siemens disgorged $350 million and this year KBR paid $177 million. Maybe because disgorgements now happen so often, or because the payments have become so enormous, we automatically accept them as […]
