The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, in joint enforcement actions, have won the second-largest penalties — totalling $579 million — for violation of the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act against an American company involved in a 10-year scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction contracts.
Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, a global engineering, construction and services company based in Houston, entered guilty pleas to a five-count criminal information in federal court in Houston. As part of the plea agreement, KBR agreed to pay a $402 million criminal fine.
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