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Since we started tracking FCPA fugitives (like a blog — not like a U.S. Marshal), a lot has happened.
Several names came off the original FCPA fugitives list and new ones have been added.… Continue Reading
Two former executives of Control Components Inc. became the second husband and wife convicted of FCPA offenses when they pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Santa Ana, California.
Stuart Carson, 73, the former president of CCI, and Hong “Rose” Carson, 48, the director of sales for China and Taiwan, were charged in separate one-count criminal informations with making a corrupt payment to a foreign official.… Continue Reading
Sam Rubenfeld of the Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the wife of a current defendant in the Haiti telco case has been indicted.
A second superseding indictment filed in Miami federal court named Cecilia Zurita, a former vice president of Cinergy Telecommunications Inc.,… Continue Reading
What does Jan Handzlik think of yesterday’s stunning end to John O’Shea’s FCPA trial in Houston?
“It may seem old fashioned,” said Handzlik, a partner in Venable LLP, “but liability under the FCPA still requires that the acts charged be accompanied by a specific, corrupt intent.… Continue Reading
The government last week agreed to vacate Angela Aguilar’s conviction pending its appeal of the judge’s order to dismiss the indictments against her co-defendants.
Aguilar, 56, a Mexican citizen, was convicted in May with the Lindsey and Lee defendants.… Continue Reading
It was a long time coming, but justice has been done.
— Jan Handzlik, attorney for the Lindsey defendants
Federal District Judge Howard Matz on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice the indictment against Lindsey Manufacturing, Keith Lindsey, and Steve K.… Continue Reading
Lawyers for Lindsey Manufacturing and two of its executives discovered yesterday that the government failed to turn over a grand jury transcript containing testimony of FBI agent Susan Guernsey.
She was the FBI case agent whose grand jury testimony was the basis of the pending motion to dismiss the indictment for government misconduct, due to what the defense asserts was her false and misleading grand jury testimony.… Continue Reading
Sources in LA say prosecutors have offered Angela Aguilar a sentencing deal if she drops her motion for judgment of acquittal, due to be heard June 13.
Aguilar, 56, a Mexican citizen, was convicted in May of conspiracy to launder money.… Continue Reading
Will he ever come back to help his wife, Angela Aguilar?
She’s the Mexican citizen convicted last week in the Lindsey trial of conspiracy to launder money. When sentenced in LA on August 12, she’s facing up to 30 years in prison.… Continue Reading
A reader just asked about possible sentences for the Lindsey defendants convicted on all counts by an LA jury yesterday.
Here’s the status:
Sentencing for Lindsey Manufacturing, Dr. Keith Lindsey, and Steve K.… Continue Reading
The jury handed down guilty verdicts today on all counts against all of the defendants on trial in the Lindsey case.
Lindsey Manufacturing, its CEO Dr. Keith Lindsey and CFO Steve K.… Continue Reading
The jurors in the trial of Lindsey Manufacturing, its CEO Dr. Keith Lindsey and CFO Steve K. Lee, and the wife of Lindsey’s Mexican sales representative Angela Aguilar, have started their deliberations.… Continue Reading