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One luxury item is showing up more often in alleged graft-related asset seizures: wrist watches, especially the high-end variety with eye-watering price tags.… Continue Reading
Here’s the FCPA Blog’s list of the 40 biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolutions of all time.… Continue Reading
From April through June, there were two corporate FCPA enforcement actions. There were also two individual guilty pleas, with one — by Joseph Sigelman in the midst of his FCPA trial — resulting in probation only and no jail time.… Continue Reading
Job Title: Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Employer: Hewlett-Packard Company
Location: Palo Alto, California (USA)
Description
Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, this individual will manage a team of approximately ninety professionals, including five direct reports, with worldwide responsibility in the areas of Ethics and Anti-Corruption, Compliance, Investigations, Privacy and Social and Environmental Responsibility.… Continue Reading
Hewlett-Packard Co. is facing a possible 10-year ban on selling products and services to the Canada government following a guilty plea earlier this month to criminal FCPA charges by a Russian subsidiary.… Continue Reading
A Russia subsidiary of Palo Alto-based Hewlett Packard Company pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in San Francisco to conspiracy and substantive violations of the anti-bribery and accounting provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.… Continue Reading
Mail from readers often helps us stay on track. A recent example was a thoughtful note about our post, H-P pays $32 million for cheating the post office.
Here’s what the reader said:
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Dear FCPA Blog,
Just read your blog article on HP’s settlement with DOJ for alleged violations of the “most favored customer pricing” clause. … Continue Reading
The DOJ said Friday that Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to pay $32.5 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it overcharged the U.S. Postal Service for products for ten years starting in 2001.… Continue Reading
There was a big FCPA settlement by Hewlett Packard during the prior quarter, nine individual indictments were announced, an appellate court ruled on who’s a foreign official, and there was a DOJ declination.… Continue Reading
At ACI’s annual FCPA Conference last November, SEC FCPA Unit Chief Kara N. Brockmeyer disclosed that the SEC expects to rely more frequently on administrative proceedings (as opposed to more traditional civil court actions) to resolve FCPA-related enforcement matters.… Continue Reading
Hewlett-Packard’s $108 million FCPA settlement last week included a guilty plea by its Russia subsidiary to two felonies for conspiracy and substantive violations of the anti-bribery and accounting provisions of the FCPA.… Continue Reading
Hewlett-Packard’s $108 million settlement this week didn’t quite make our list of the top ten FCPA cases of all time. But with a disgorgement to the SEC of $26.4 million, H-P landed eleventh on the list of the biggest FCPA disgorgements.… Continue Reading