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Harry Cassin
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Andy Spalding
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Jessica Tillipman
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Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
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Elizabeth K. Spahn
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Cody Worthington
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Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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The FCPA has now been with us during four complete decades and two partial decades, and measuring corporate enforcement by looking at the three biggest cases of each decade tells quite a story.… Continue Reading
It’s not just your company where it’s happening. It’s every company, everywhere, all at once, and it’s undermining compliance. What is it? Uncertainty. … Continue Reading
Roger Ng, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for his role in the bribery and embezzlement scheme at Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.… Continue Reading
There is perhaps no topic in compliance that causes more frustration and angst than ESG. How did we get here and where is it all going? Here are the big dilemmas with ESG as told by compliance pros.… Continue Reading
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to recall the biggest stories from the FCPA Blog. Here are my choices for the top five stories we’ve covered during 2022, along with some personal favorites for honorable mention.… Continue Reading
The biggest FCPA resolutions yearly show enormous variation and no predictable pattern. Although four of the biggest cases for each of the past ten years settled for more than $1 billion, with an overall average settlement size for the ten cases of about $996 million, a couple of years were laggards.… Continue Reading
Following recent SEC filings that described previously unreported FCPA-related investigations, there are at least 100 confirmed ongoing investigations overall, with 20 new active investigations first disclosed since the start of 2020, according to data from FCPA Tracker.… Continue Reading
On August 8, 2007, the founder (and current editor at large) published the first post on the FCPA Blog, “Delta & Pine Land Company Settles FCPA Charges.” Before Siemens, Airbus, and Goldman Sachs, there was Delta & Pine Land Company.… Continue Reading
The FCPA Blog started publishing its list of the ten biggest FCPA corporate enforcement actions about a dozen years ago. Since then, I’ve written a lot about the top ten list, and I even did a series of talks, mainly in Asia, using the top ten list as a way to understand FCPA enforcement policy and attitudes toward compliance.… Continue Reading
When Switzerland-based Glencore paid the DOJ $700 million last week to settle widespread FCPA offenses, it earned a place on our FCPA top ten list, replacing a French bank and leaving Goldman Sachs as the only other bank currently on the list.… Continue Reading
Roger Ng, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, was convicted by a New York jury Friday on three counts including conspiring to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA, conspiring to circumvent internal accounting controls in violation of the FCPA, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.… Continue Reading
I collect tidbits about FCPA enforcement. During good weeks, the tidbits come together for a post. Other times, they stubbornly remain random factoids. That’s what happened this week. No unified field theory of FCPA enforcement.… Continue Reading