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Posts Tagged: 1998 Amendments

The Hunt For Public International Organizations

Philip Fitzgerald August 9, 2012

After it signed the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the U.S. in 1998 amended the FCPA through the International Anti-Bribery and Fair Competition Act. Among other things, the 1998 amendment widened the definition of “foreign official” to include any officer or employee of a public international organization or any person acting in an official capacity for, or on behalf of, any such public international organization.… Continue Reading

Beyond Balance IV: New Players, Same Playing Field

Andy Spalding February 3, 2012

Serendipity is a wonderful thing. What better segue from my last posting than Wednesday’s announcement that Russia has signed the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. This is a remarkable and important event. I hope we fully understand why.… Continue Reading

Beyond Balance: Reframing the FCPA Reform Debate

Andy Spalding January 25, 2012

Thanks again to the FCPA Blog for sharing its space with me at this, a crucial point in FCPA history. Readers of this blog well know that since enacting the statute in 1977, we have amended it only twice — in 1988 and 1998.… Continue Reading

Bodmer Appointed To Board Of Swiss Bank

Richard L. Cassin July 22, 2011

Bloomberg’s David Glovin reported this month that Viktor Kozeny’s Swiss lawyer who pleaded guilty in the U.S. to conspiracy to launder money was appointed to the board of “a Swiss bank that the government said he used in the criminal scheme.”… Continue Reading

If The FCPA Is Sick, Judicial Review Is The Medicine

Richard L. Cassin June 15, 2011

Professor Ellen S. Podgor: Give corporate defendants a good-faith defenseThe hearing in the House about the FCPA on Tuesday was a testy affair, with some serious debate and some less serious political theater.… Continue Reading

Bourke Witness Faces Sentencing

Richard L. Cassin February 23, 2010

Hans Bodmer, a key witness against Frederic Bourke, faces sentencing today in federal court in Manhattan for conspiracy to launder money. Photo by edenpicturesHans Bodmer, the Swiss lawyer who once represented Viktor Kozeny and provided key testimony against Frederic Bourke, may learn his sentence today.… Continue Reading

Tinseltown, Bourke Again, And Margaritaville

Richard L. Cassin August 20, 2009

More on the Greens. In February 2008 we said: “We’re not privy to the Greens’ defense, of course, but they appear to have a tough legal battle ahead of them.”… Continue Reading

The Feds Should Take A Meeting

Richard L. Cassin August 18, 2009

Husband-and-wife movie producers Gerald and Patricia Green are now on trial in LA for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Prosecutors allege they paid more than $1.8 million in bribes to Juthamas Siriwan, a former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, in return for $14 million in contracts to stage the Bangkok Film Festival.

Catching Corrupt Lawyers, Part II

Richard L. Cassin April 29, 2009

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. — Mario Puzo

With that street-smart aphorism in mind, we went looking for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act-related cases where lawyers were alleged to be on the wrong side of the law.… Continue Reading

In Search Of The Level Playing Field

Richard L. Cassin October 2, 2008

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was last amended ten years ago. The “International Anti-Bribery and Fair Competition Act of 1998” was intended to make the FCPA consistent with the OECD Convention — formally titled the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.… Continue Reading