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After a brief end-of-the-semester hiatus we’re picking back up our series on Wal-Mart’s victims. And we’re less than half-way through.
I argued in Part VI that we should think of corruption as violating a human right. … Continue Reading
New scholarship from Elizabeth Spahn tackles the opportunities and risks behind the new trend of multi-national antibribery enforcement.
It’s a topic crucial to nations joining the war against graft. And it’s no less important to anyone facing the threat of enforcement by two or more countries.… Continue Reading
Rolls-Royce appointed an outside lawyer to investigate allegations of overseas bribery in China and Indonesia.
David Gold, described by Reuters as ‘a Conservative life peer in Britain’s House of Lords,’ was formerly a member of the London-based law firm Herbert Smith.… Continue Reading
For most of us, December means giant year-end bonuses, moving to bigger houses, and getaways to the Turks and Caicos. No, that’s not true.
But it is true that for the FCPA, December can mean big news.… Continue Reading
A recent University of Chicago Legal Forum article looks deep into an important new enforcement trend — duplicative enforcement actions in multiple countries.
The article — ‘Carbon Copy” Prosecutions: A Growing Anticorruption Phenomenon in a Shrinking World’ — was written by T.… Continue Reading
Britain’s BAE Systems and Europe’s EADS are proposing to merge, they said earlier this month, to create a defense giant capable of competing against Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
BAE is one of the biggest military contractors to the U.S.… Continue Reading
One of the most fundamentally (and frequently) misunderstood aspects of the FAR 9.4 suspension & debarment (S&D) regime is that S&D are only to be used for the purpose of protecting the Government, not to punish contractors for their past misconduct.… Continue Reading
We’ve seen, in our last two posts in this series (here and here), a radical new enforcement idea starting to take root — using at least some portion of the enforcement proceeds to directly benefit the citizens of the countries in which the bribery occurred.… Continue Reading
Joe Palazzolo and Chris Matthews at the Wall Street Journal asked how Walmart’s alleged $24 million in bribes to Mexican officials compares with other cases from our list of the Top Ten FCPA enforcement actions.… Continue Reading
The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office said today that BAE Systems will pay nearly £30 million to fund educational projects in Tanzania.
The payment is part of BAE’s 2010 global settlement of bribery charges.… Continue Reading
No company, regardless of its size or industry, is immune from potential FCPA liability if it does business abroad. Why then, has FCPA Sanctions: Too Big to Debar by Drury Stevenson and Nicholas Wagoner, singled-out and declared war on large government contractors?… Continue Reading
In April this year, the final TSKJ partner, Japan’s JGC, paid $218.8 million in a plea deal with the DOJ. It was the biggest FCPA case in 2011 (so far) and landed sixth on our all-time top ten list.… Continue Reading