Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Joe Martini, James Glasser and Judd Lindenfeld | January 30, 2018
The new FCPA policy provides the much-needed assurance that fulsome voluntary self-disclosure of FCPA violations will likely serve to avoid criminal prosecution. At the same time, the new FCPA policy signals that the government will continue to combat corporate misconduct by focusing on individual misconduct.
By Zach Brez, Allison Lullo, and Giselle Sedano | January 26, 2018
Over the last year, the CFTC continued to align itself with other, more frequently-lauded enforcement agencies like the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But the CFTC also closed out its fiscal year having brought only 49 enforcement actions, nearly 30 percent fewer actions than in FY2016, and obtaining orders totaling approximately $412 million in restitution, disgorgement and penalties, amounting to only one-third of the $1.29 billion garnered in FY2016.
By Cogan Schneier | January 23, 2018
Harmon and FBI Director Christopher Wray worked together for years at the firm King & Spalding.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Philip C. Patterson and Vera M. Kachnowski | January 19, 2018
International Criminal Law and Enforcement columnists Philip Patterson and Vera Kachnowski write: The end of 2017 marked both the 40th anniversary of the FCPA and a $965 million FCPA settlement with Swedish telecommunications company, Telia Company AB. As we begin the new year, FCPA watchers will be closely monitoring how remedies such as this evolve under both SEC and DOJ authority, in light of other 2017 developments.
By Sue Reisinger | January 17, 2018
Singapore is the latest country to consider using DPAs, joining Australia, Canada and France, which are also considering the agreements. The United States and U.K. already use these tools.
By Sue Reisinger | January 16, 2018
Mark Lambert, former co-president of Transport Logistics International, has been indicted on 11 counts, including seven counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
By Cogan Schneier | January 8, 2018
Lawyers for the firm behind the so-called Russia Dossier want Judge Trevor McFadden to consider recusing from their subpoena battle in a defamation case.
By Sue Reisinger | January 4, 2018
The $2.95 billion settlement should show companies just how important anticorruption measures and compliance regimes can be.
By Jenna Greene | January 4, 2018
There's good news and bad in the list of 17 interim U.S. Attorneys appointed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday. The good: The Eastern…
By Sue Reisinger | January 4, 2018
Jeffery Chow, who worked 25 years in Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd.'s legal department, cooperated with the DOJ in its case in federal district court in Brooklyn against Singapore-based Keppel and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary as part of a plea agreement. His plea deal and a transcript of his hearing remarks were unsealed on Dec. 22, the same day Keppel settled its FCPA case with the U.S., Singapore and Brazil for over $422 million.
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