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
On the heels of the Gunvor FCPA settlement for $661 million, DOJ announced its settlement with Trafigura, the latest commodities trading company to fall under DOJ’s FCPA Sweep against the industry. Trafigura joined the list...more
You have to give the Justice Department credit — after two slow enforcement years, DOJ is starting off 2024 with a relative “bang;” first, DOJ reached a large settlement with SAP in January, and now, DOJ has reached a...more
We continue our exploration of the resolution of the FCPA enforcement action involving the Swiss trading firm Gunvor S.A. The enforcement action came in with a $661 million penalty against the company, which has pleaded...more
In March 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the resolution of a FCPA enforcement action involving the Swiss trading firm Gunvor S.A. The enforcement action comes in with a $661 million penalty against the...more
Ericsson, a multinational telecommunications company, based in Sweden, settled its breach of its 2019 Deferred Prosecution Agreement, agreed to enter a guilty plea and pay a $206 million penalty. In 2019, Ericsson entered...more
DOJ closed out its FCPA enforcement year in 2022 with two significant settlements, the ABB and Honeywell cases. Aside from these two big settlements, there was a flurry of other actions in the last quarter of 2022....more
The Justice Department’s new Corporate Enforcement Policy and the heightened enforcement and compliance expectations were put to the test in its announcement of a $315 million settlement of bribery charges with ABB, a...more
Raymond Kohut, a 68-year old Canadian citizen, a former employee of Swiss commodities trader, Gunvor Group, Ltd., pleaded guilty to paying $22 million in bribes to Ecuadoran government officials at state-owned oil company,...more
In 2020, the Justice Department brought criminal charges against 22 individuals in FCPA-related investigations. While this was a decline from the two preceding years, COVID-19 had a dramatic impact on criminal FCPA...more
In this third edition of October HorrorFest 2020 celebration we consider the first Hammer film sequel (and second in the series) – The Revenge of Frankenstein which was released in 1958. It begins as the Curse of Frankenstein...more
The former deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee and prominent fundraiser for President Trump has agreed to plead guilty with lobbying on behalf of Jho Low, an indicted and fugitive financier, who was...more
Today, October 2, is the first Friday in October so I begin my annual month of Friday HorrorFest Film highlights. The great thing about this blog post series is that I get to re-watch these great old horror films. While I...more
We rarely have seen a single Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action generate so many individual criminal pleas. The Sargeant Marine Inc. (Sargeant Marine) case is an exception. To date, there have been six...more
Recently we saw one of the most blatant cases of bribery and corruption brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the form of a guilty plea by Sargeant Marine Inc. (Sargeant Marine), an asphalt company, related to...more
Gale Sayers died Wednesday. For any serious student of the National Football League (NFL), Sayers will always be known as one of the greatest runners of all-time. His rookie season was one for the record books; scoring 22...more
Former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins’s jury convictions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) were set aside on February 26, 2020, by Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the United States District Court for the...more
In its continuing aggressive FCPA criminal enforcement program, DOJ announced the indictment of two former Alstom executives and a former Marubeni executive with FCPA violations arising from a bribery scheme in Indonesia....more
It is time to break out the crystal ball for FCPA 2020 Predictions. In preparing for this, I always rely on my past admiration of Carnac the Magnificent....more
Happy New Year!! In the FCPA arena, 2019 was a record year – in enforcement and compliance. Many continuing trends are becoming more than trends – meaning they are turning into established practices....more
On December 6, 2019, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or the Company), resolved long-running investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the...more
The Sweden-based telecommunications company, Ericsson, agreed to a pay a total of $1 billion (yes, billion with a “B”) for FCPA violations. Ericsson entered into settlement agreements with DOJ and the SEC. Ericsson agreed...more
Based on Evidence He Acted as Agent of U.S. Subsidiary in Carrying Out Bribery Scheme - Overview - In November, a jury sitting in the U.S. District Court for the District for Connecticut convicted Lawrence Hoskins, a...more
The Justice Department won another FCPA trial. After a three-week trial, Mark Lambert of Mount Airy, Maryland, was found guilty of four counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to...more
Lawrence Hoskins, a British citizen and former employee of French conglomerate Alstom SA, has been found guilty by a federal jury in Connecticut of 11 of 12 criminal charges, including six counts of violating the United...more