News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance
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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Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco is speaking at the SCCE’s 2023 Compliance and Ethics Institute in Chicago next week. Will she be talking about standardized voluntary self-disclosure extensions for reducing FCPA risk in mergers and acquisitions?… Continue Reading
Last month, French firm Safran S.A. received the DOJ’s 16th declination with disgorgement. Remember how declinations with disgorgement came into being?… Continue Reading
French aerospace defense company Safran S.A. received a declination from the DOJ last week despite bribery that violated the FCPA.… Continue Reading
The extra-territorial reach of the FCPA and its impact are perhaps no better evidenced than by the colossal fines paid by Siemens in 2008.
But what are European states doing to enforce their own national law and in particular the implementation the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention?… Continue Reading
French defense and security firm Safran was fined €500,000 last week by a court in Paris for bribing government officials in Nigeria.
Reuters reported that an investigating magistrate ‘found that the bribes had helped Safran win a €170 million contract to make more than 70 million identity cards.’… Continue Reading