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5/29/2009
FCPA Ramp Up Continues
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3/19/2009
Shell Bribery Probe Continues
What to Expect When You're Expecting an FCPA Crackdown
FCPA Ramp Up Continues 2/11/2009
Words of Wisdom
A Look Ahead on What to Expect from FCPA Prosecutions 1/29/2009
Halliburton is Breakin' Records! 9/08/2008
Telecom Execs Cooperate to Lessen Penalties on Bribery Conviction 4/28/2008
FCPA Compliance is Big Business
FCPA Actions v/s European Inaction 2/06/2008
FCPA Prosecutions Up, The Next Corporate Scandal Brewing?
NYT Digs Deep on BAE and Corporate Bribery
Siemens Braces for U.S. Penalties
Dow Chemical Runs Afoul of OFAC, Facing Fine on Bribes
FCPA Ramp Up Continues
With 120 companies currently under investigation for alleged acts of foreign bribery.
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Labels: FCPA
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FCPA--Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Shell Bribery Probe Continues
A little of that FCPA action we've been talking about. The U.S. government's investigation goes (involving both the SEC and DOJ) back to 2007 and concerns allegations that reps of Royal Dutch Shell paid bribes to Nigerian customs agents, possibly through Swiss freight forwarding firm Panalpina. The SEC is investigating ten other firms that used Panalpina on suspicion of similar illegal payments. Shell has been running its own internal investigation alongside the U.S. Government probe.
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3/18/2009
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Labels: bribery, FCPA, Royal Dutch Shell
What to Expect When You're Expecting an FCPA Crackdown
Some thoughts from the fine folks at Baker Hostetler, via the New York Law Journal.
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2/22/2009
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Labels: FCPA
FCPA Ramp Up Continues 2/11/2009
Words of Wisdom
"Whenever company structures, payment arrangements, and management compositions have no obvious operational or economic justification, there must be something wrong."
From the FCPA Blog, RE: Kellogg, Brown & Root.
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2/05/2009
From the FCPA Blog, RE: Kellogg, Brown & Root.
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Labels: FCPA, Halliburton, KBR
A Look Ahead on What to Expect from FCPA Prosecutions 1/29/2009
Halliburton is Breakin' Records! 9/08/2008
Telecom Execs Cooperate to Lessen Penalties on Bribery Conviction 4/28/2008
FCPA Compliance is Big Business
Interesting article from WaPo on the rise of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance consulting. Keep an eye out for investigator cameos from Michael Hershman of the Fairfax Group and Dan Karson of Kroll as you take it in.
Good stuff.
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2/11/2008
Good stuff.
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Labels: Fairfax Group, FCPA, Kroll, Siemens
FCPA Actions v/s European Inaction 2/06/2008
FCPA Prosecutions Up, The Next Corporate Scandal Brewing?
See Kevin Lacroix's post from the D&O Diary for details. The Fenwick & West article he cites is available via Mondaq.
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11/26/2007
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Labels: FCPA, Fenwick and West, Mondaq
NYT Digs Deep on BAE and Corporate Bribery
Good stuff here on both the BAE bribery investigation, but also on the current state of FCPA investigations and prosecutions. Check it out.
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11/16/2007
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Labels: BAE, Bandar Bush, bribery, FCPA
Siemens Braces for U.S. Penalties
The Siemens black accounts / bribery scandal would be the biggest FCPA case of all time and the U.S. has a history of showing up foreign governments when it comes to penalties. Conventinal wisdom says that the fines imposed here will be the biggest yet. More on the U.S. Siemens investigation from BusinessWeek.
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2/26/2007
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Dow Chemical Runs Afoul of OFAC, Facing Fine on Bribes
Dow Chemical has been fined by the SEC under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for offering bribes to officials of the Indian government in exchange for registering certain pesticides in Indian. Details at the Hindustan Times.
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Labels: bribery, Dow Chemical, FCPA, SEC
