Compliance can sometimes seem like a secondary task for law departments. But a robust compliance program at Willbros Group Inc. helped then–general counsel Jay Dalton detect a bribery scheme at the company four years ago—and gave him the means to stop it.
Now the law has caught up with the employees behind the scheme. In January two former managers of a Willbros subsidiary were sentenced for paying $6 million in bribes to Nigerian government officials in order to win a contract. Willbros, which has its administrative headquarters in Houston, is an international oil and gas pipeline company.
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