When a sales executive for a French power company appeared in a New Haven federal courtroom this month, he joined a growing number of businesses and their employees charged recently with making bribes overseas.
William Pomponi, 65, of North Granby, faces up to five years in prison if convicted of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. According to charging dockets filed in U.S. District Court, Pomponi and two other executives were working for an arm of Alstom Inc. in 2005, when they directed consultants to transfer $1 million from a bank account in Maryland to an account in Indonesia. The aim was to secure a contract to build a power plant there.
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