Arms dealer who helped inspire FCPA dies in London
Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer in the middle of the giant 1970s bribery scandal that led to enactment of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, has died in London at 81.… Continue Reading
Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer in the middle of the giant 1970s bribery scandal that led to enactment of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, has died in London at 81.… Continue Reading
Kudos to the FCPA Blog headline writer who “visited the ghost of the FCPA past” in a post about the Senate’s great debate of the bill that became the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.… Continue Reading
Senator William Proxmire and President Jimmy Carter in early 1978. (White House Photograph)When Congress wraps up its current session this week, the last two World War II veterans will leave office.… Continue Reading
President Jimmy Carter signed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act into law in December 1977 (photo courtesy of Carter archives)The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention was signed in Paris in December 1997 and prohibited a specific form of active bribery: that of foreign public officials in international business transactions. … Continue Reading
We now know who will be the next President of the United States. We also know that as far as the FCPA is concerned, the outcome of yesterday’s election probably didn’t matter. … Continue Reading
George McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012)George McGovern, the former senator who died this weekend at 90, ran against Richard Nixon for the presidency in 1972. McGovern lost in one of the country’s most lopsided elections.… Continue Reading
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981), signed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act into law in 1977 (Photo courtesy of the the Jimmy Carter Library)The FCPA is a white-collar crime solution to a foreign policy problem.… Continue Reading