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Gifts, travel and entertainment, foreign officials, successor liability, and effective compliance programs.
They’re among the topics covered by the new 120-page joint DOJ and SEC guidance on the FCPA.
In the fact sheet accompanying the guidance, the DOJ summarized its position on those topics.… Continue Reading
Just over a year after Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer first announced plans to issue “detailed new guidance on the [FCPA’s] criminal and civil enforcement provisions,” the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S.… Continue Reading
The DOJ and SEC today released a 120-page FCPA resource guide.
It’s available in pdf here.
The foreword, signed today by the DOJ’s Lanny Breuer and the SEC’s Robert Khuzami, says:
… Continue ReadingThe Guide is an unprecedented undertaking by DOJ and SEC to provide the public with detailed information about our FCPA enforcement approach and priorities.
In its disclosure yesterday, Avon provided a glimpse into what it means to be cooperating with the DOJ and SEC.
Avon is deep into a huge global investigation about FCPA compliance that so far has cost the company more than $280 million.… Continue Reading
The DOJ’s second Opinion Procedure Release this year approved a plan by 19 non-profit adoption agencies to bring foreign officials to the United States to meet the staff at the agencies and families who have already adopted kids from the officials’ country.… Continue Reading
From Avon Products Inc’s Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 1, 2012:
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As previously reported, we have engaged outside counsel to conduct an internal investigation and compliance reviews focused on compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (‘FCPA’) and related U.S.… Continue Reading
The SEC on Friday (September 28) filed a partially-settled civil injunctive action in federal court in Minnesota against Subramanian Krishnan, the former CFO of Digi International, Inc., alleging multiple offenses under the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA.… Continue Reading