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Enforcement actions by the DOJ against companies and individuals are often resolved by the defendant pleading guilty to a conspiracy count. We had assumed the DOJ used conspiracy instead of substantive FCPA offenses solely to give cooperating defendants a break.… Continue Reading
Banks in Britain accepted deposits from corrupt Nigerian politicians between 1999 and 2005 that included bribe money, and continued the practice even after regulators issued specific warnings, according to a report released Monday by NGO Global Witness.… Continue Reading
ABB joins the list of top ten FCPA settlements of all time, coming in at number seven. And after a run of five years in the top ten, Titan Corporation drops to number eleven.… Continue Reading
So
mething big, very big, is happening in FCPA enforcement. The top ten FCPA settlements of all time involve penalties of $2.8 billion. The top six happened in just the past 20 months and account for 95% of that, or $2.67 billion.… Continue Reading
Here are the top ten FCPA settlements of all time. If our math is right, the financial penalties (criminal fines, civil disgorgement, and prejudgment interest) add up to $2.8 billion, with almost 50% of that coming from the top two settlements.… Continue Reading
Jack Stanley: The most important cooperating witness in FCPA history. There’s never been a cooperating witness in FCPA history quite like him. A former corporate top gun, a global player, a captain of industry who once led the dark side and now sits with the prosecution, helping nail industry giants and along the way putting more than a billion dollars — a billion dollars — into the U.S.… Continue Reading
The fourth member of the TSKJ consortium — JGC Corporation of Japan — and the only one that hasn’t settled Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges with the U.S. government, disclosed in its latest annual report that it’s in talks with the DOJ “about a potential resolution” of FCPA-related charges.… Continue Reading
Snamprogetti Netherlands B.V. and its parent company ENI S.p.A of Italy will pay $365 million to resolve FCPA-related charges for Snamprogetti’s role in the TSKJ-Nigeria joint venture.
Dutch-based Snamprogetti was charged by the DOJ in a criminal information with one count of conspiracy and one count of aiding and abetting violations of the FCPA.… Continue Reading
French company Technip said on Friday in its fourth quarter earnings release that it has reserved €245 million for an exceptional charge related to a potential settlement of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act offenses with the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission for its role in the TSKJ Nigeria joint venture.… Continue Reading
The London lawyer accused by the U.S. of being a middleman in KBR’s bribery of Nigerian officials appeared in court last week to fight extradition. Jeffrey Tesler, 61, a U.K. citizen, was indicted in February by a federal grand jury in Houston.… Continue Reading
Here’s a dispatch from Cody Worthington:
… Continue ReadingDear FCPA Blog,
I attended the opening day of ACI’s 22nd National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in D.C. yesterday [November 17].
Among the many people there were representatives of the DOJ and SEC.
Halliburton disclosed Friday in its latest SEC filing that the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) may bring civil claims or criminal charges against it under various British laws. In February this year, Halliburton and its former subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, admitted paying Nigerian officials at least $182 million in bribes for contracts awarded between 1995 and 2004 to build liquefied natural gas facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria.… Continue Reading
