FCPA
The Implication for Non-FCPA Related Cases Michael Volkov discusses the Justice Department’s FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy, enacted late last year; its efficacy so far; and its potential impact on corporate criminal cases unrelated to the FCPA. The Justice Department’s FCPA...
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Corporate Criminal Liability for Bribery in Asia-Pacific While individual employees and company representatives are responsible for acts of bribery in the majority of cases, the trend in Asia-Pacific countries is toward greater scrutiny of corporations. with co-authors Jenni Hill, Lei...
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A Bribe is a Bribe Why do organizations use sanitized language rather than more direct verbiage? A new generation of business leaders and employees is beginning to question the need for corporate speak. Michael Volkov discusses the need for a...
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"Resources Reflect Policy" and Other Observations Michael Volkov discusses themes emerging in the DOJ’s and SEC’s enforcement of FCPA violations thus far in 2018. There are two distinct themes in FCPA enforcement: The first is consistency (i.e., that some enforcement...
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Recently, Credit Suisse settled an FCPA enforcement action to the tune of $77 million for the illegal hiring of family members and close personal friends of Chinese government employees, as well as employees in Chinese state-owned enterprises. Compliance expert and...
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The History of FCPA Enforcement, Part 2 In Part 1 of this two-part series on the history of the enforcement of the FCPA, Anne Eberhardt discussed some of the factors that led to its creation. In this second part, she...
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The History of FCPA Enforcement, Part 1 Anne Eberhardt, Senior Director at Gavin Solmonese and an expert in FCPA, forensic, compliance, fraud and corruption investigations, offers a brief history of the FCPA. In this first installment, she provides historical context...
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Those bemoaning the lack of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity can cease. With the Dun & Bradstreet Inc. (D&B) declination in April and May’s enforcement action involving Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC) and its parent Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic), U.S. regulators at the...
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Political Ties This article will dig deep into the issue of whether President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, should be concerned about potential FCPA violations on the heels of revelations about payments received from multi-national corporations. It's a complicated issue since...
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The State of Corruption Risk in Latin America The biggest-ever corruption and bribery investigation in Latin America has seen scores of business leaders and politicians end up in prison. So riveting is the story that it’s now been dramatized into...
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Trump and the FCPA Instances of global corruption pepper our newspapers and news feeds. Closer to home, allegations of corruption have taken center stage in the American political landscape, and President Trump has been openly critical of the Foreign Corrupt...
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TRACE International, the globally renowned anti-bribery standard setting organization, has published its annual Global Enforcement Report. The Global Enforcement Report (GER) provides graphic and textual analyses of all known investigations and enforcement actions involving transnational commercial bribery since the passage of the U.S....
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- Andrew J. Kandelapas August 20, 2019SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against CEO in Penny Stock Fraud Scheme
- Crystal World Holdings, Inc., et al. August 19, 2019SEC Charges Issuer for Misleading Investors in the Sale of Unregistered Securities
