Compliance into the Weeds: Understanding the Telefonica Venezuela FCPA Enforcement Action
Episode 344 -- SEC Settles FCPA Case with Moog for $1.7 Million
Wicked Coin: FIFA: Soccer, Scandal, and Sportswashing
Episode 339: Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
Episode 338 -- Deep Dive into the Deere SEC FCPA Case
FCPA Survival Guide - Step 8 - Investing in Compliance
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
FCPA Survival Guide: Step 3 - Extensive Remediation
Episode 324 -- Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
Compliance Tip of the Day – Compliance Lessons from the Albemarle FCPA Enforcement Action
FCPA Survival Guide: Step 1 - Self-Disclosure
All Things Investigations: Compliance Lessons from Gunvor and Trafigura Enforcement Actions
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: Deep Dive into The Trafigura FCPA Settlement
Episode 317 -- A Deep Dive into the Trafigura FCPA Settlement
What's Going on with FCPA?
Episode 316 -- DOJ Announces New Whistleblower Policy
Compliance into The Weeds: Trafigura FCPA Enforcement Action
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: Deep Dive into The Gunvor FCPA Settlement
Episode 314 -- A Deep Dive into Gunvor's FCPA Settlement
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: DOJ’s Shifting Approach to Recidivism and Self-Disclosure
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather I know I sound like a broken record. The Justice Department’s white collar criminal enforcement has been trending down over the last few...more
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Jan. 10, 2024, announced a Whistleblower Pilot Program (Program) that it is presenting as another "tool in [the SDNY's] toolkit" that could unearth...more
On January 17, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. delivered remarks at Georgetown University Law Center, during which he announced changes to the DOJ’s Criminal Division Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary...more
Federal prosecutors enjoy flipping through the United States Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq., to pick out tools to charge defendants. Over the last ten years, DOJ’s reliance on criminal charges in FCPA cases has...more
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the change in presidential administrations in the United States in January 2021, US enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) declined in 2021. However, we...more
In this episode, we examine how two criminal defendants are aiming to leverage parallel FCPA investigations by the SEC and the DOJ to build their defense. We’ll also offer our thoughts on the SEC’s new (and improved?)...more
A ruling issued on Wednesday, February 26 by a Connecticut federal court details the type of control necessary to find that a foreign national acted as an agent of a U.S. domestic concern for purposes of falling within the...more
This year, 2020, has been an enforcement year opening with billion-dollar settlements: first, Airbus settled FCPA charges for $4 billion, and now Wells Fargo for $3 billion. What a start to an enforcement year!...more
Last week, a jury found a former executive of a French multinational company guilty of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, and conspiracy in connection with alleged bribery in Indonesia....more
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits payment of bribes to foreign officials to assist with obtaining or retaining business. It also requires companies whose securities are listed in the US to make and keep...more
On Sept. 9, 2015, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memo requiring federal prosecutors to investigate any individuals responsible for illegal corporate conduct before settling a case. This applied to both...more