In November 2012, the SEC and DOJ released a joint Resource Guide to the US Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) to much fanfare. While...
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On April 9, the US Sentencing Commission approved changes to the federal sentencing guidelines for fraud cases, in response to...
At the Corporate Counsel Institute hosted by Georgetown University Law Center last week, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities...
On January 23, 2014, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it had entered into a $152...
On February 5, 2015, D.C. District Judge Richard Leon of the District of the District of Columbia rejected a proposed settlement between...
Conventional wisdom has it that the US FCPA—unlike, say, the UK Bribery Act—doesn’t cover commercial bribery. See, eg, this, this, this,...