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Mike Koehler of the FCPA Professor talked to Reuters’ Brett Wolf this week about the DOJ’s promised FCPA guidance.
Don’t have high hopes for change, Koehler said.
Late last year, the DOJ’s Lanny Breuer announced his intention to release new FCPA guidance during 2012.… Continue Reading
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
Thirty-three civil society and business groups are fighting efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to amend the FCPA. Last week they sent a letter to every member of the House and Senate to argue their point.… Continue Reading
By T. Markus Funk and M. Bridget Minder
Simmering throughout 2011, the robust FCPA reform debate can now be divided into a number of distinct drafting and public policy battle fields.… Continue Reading
David Riker, a managing director at Kroll (a sponsor of the FCPA Blog), had this to say today in The Hill’s Congress Blog about efforts by the Chamber of Commerce to change the FCPA:
… Continue ReadingInvoking the rhetoric of a populist manifesto, the Chamber is trying to make the case that increased enforcement of the FCPA has had a chilling effect on U.S.
On Wednesday, our favorite pundit, Mike Koehler, left, posted on the FCPA Professor an item he called our ‘greatest hit.’
He generously said, ‘[P]icking Cassin’s greatest hit is no easy chore.… Continue Reading
Associate Attorney General Lanny Breuer, left, defended the FCPA today and argued that now is not the time to water it down.
In remarks to the National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Washington, D.C.,… Continue Reading
Only time will tell if Congress sticks with the old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” or trades it in for a new one: “If it ain’t broke, don’t enforce it…then fix it.”… Continue Reading
A powerful, detailed rebuttal to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s proposals to amend the U.S. FCPA launched this month. Professorial powerhouses David Kennedy (Harvard Law School) and Dan Danielsen (Northeastern School of Law) issued their 84 page analysis, Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.… Continue Reading
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
In his testimony today before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the FCPA is hurting businesses and needs reforms that will provide clarity and guidance to the business community.… Continue Reading
By Michael Volkov
At a recent ABA event on Capitol Hill, Sam Ramer, a House Judiciary Committee Staffer, announced that the House Judiciary Committee was planning an oversight hearing on the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.… Continue Reading