Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Shruti J. Shah
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
It’s not just about corporations anymore. FCPA enforcement is now about individuals too — and in a big way. Here’s this year’s FCPA roll call of real people: Gerald and Patricia Green, whose Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial opened in LA this week.… Continue Reading
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
We talked earlier about the “knowledge” element of an FCPA offense and the two kinds of “knowledge” the government can prove: What the defendant actually knows and what he or she should know under the circumstances.… Continue Reading
Prosecutors told the jury during Frederic Bourke’s trial that instead of doing adequate due diligence for his investment in Viktor Kozeny’s Azerbaijan privatization scheme, he’d “stuck his head in the sand.”… Continue Reading
Here’s what struck us. That nowhere else would Frederic Bourke have been prosecuted on the facts of his case. A few other countries have taken small steps to fight overseas corruption — Germany, the U.K.,… Continue Reading
Frederic Bourke was convicted on Friday of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Travel Act, and lying to FBI agents. He was acquitted of money laundering. The judge has already said she will impose less than the 10-year maximum sentence prosecutors have asked for.… Continue Reading
One of Russia’s leading anti-corruption journalists died last week from head wounds received two months ago in an attack outside his home. Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, 63, ran the paper Korruptsia i Prestupnost (Corruption and Crime) in Rostov-on-Don.… Continue Reading
Tiny Antigua — the adopted home of Sir Allen Stanford — isn’t the only Caribbean hide-away that’s in the news these days for the wrong reasons. There’s also its even-tinier neighbor, the Turks and Caicos Islands.… Continue Reading
During the second quarter there were, by our count, eleven Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions. They involved four companies — three firms resolved criminal or civil charges, or both, and one disclosed an investigation — and 13 individuals who were either indicted, put on trial, pleaded guilty or sentenced.… Continue Reading
An extended interview in this month’s Guernica with Michela Wrong is great reading. She’s the British journalist who’s current book is It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower.… Continue Reading
We like to end our weeks around here with a light touch. But not today. We just read a disturbing story from Reuters’ Aseel Kami in the Washington Post. He describes the “pandemic of corruption” now gripping Iraq.… Continue Reading
Russia — the world’s largest country by land mass, with 11 time zones and 142,000,000 people, one of five permanent members on the UN Security Council, member of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, and possessor of the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on the planet — yes, that Russia, ranks 120th on the World Bank’s Doing Business Index (here).… Continue Reading
