The Post examines the increasing attention to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters in this article today. Long a priority of the FBI and the Justice Department, efforts to police corrupt business payments have intensified in recent weeks, with multimillion-dollar corporate settlements and coordinated arrests of individual executives accused of attempting to grease the skids.
Day: February 8, 2010
Disclosure in the City of Long Beach
Long Beach may require new lobbyist disclosures, according to this report. The proposed law would apply to any contact between lobbyists and any city and Redevelopment Agency officials and board members, including employees, unless they have a purely clerical or secretarial job.
Citizens United and the Supreme Court’s course ahead
USAT‘s Joan Biskupic says that Citizens United marks a landmark in the path of the Supreme Court’s term.