Via The FCPA Professor comes word of a new GAO report on deferred and non-prosecution agreements. Professor Koehler notes: Why would a company agree to enter into an NPA/DPA if factual evidence did not exist to support the essential elements of the crime “alleged” or if valid and legitimate defenses did exist? Quite simply, negotiating […]
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecutions in the news
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.
One big FCPA conspiracy alleged
Mainjustice.com has an update on the 22 people arrested in connection with an alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act scheme. “This is one conspiracy, but for practical reasons the defendants were indicted separately,” prosecutor Hank Bond Walther said at an arraignment this morning for eight defendants before Judge Richard Leon in federal court in Washington, D.C.