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Thank you for visiting FCPA Professor. This will be the last post at this location . I am pleased to announce the launch of a new and impr...

In February 2009, Richard Bistrong a former employee of Armor Holdings Inc. (a former publicly-traded company, currently a subsidiary of BAE...

From an FCPA reform perspective, most of the recent scrutiny has been on the DOJ and its enforcement policies and positions. Yet, the FCPA i...

During last month's House hearing on the FCPA (see here for the prior post) Representative James Sensenbrenner told Greg Andres (DOJ) t...

James Stewart’s first Common Sense column for Business Day at the New York Times ( here ) profiles the February 2011 FCPA enforcement action...

On January 19, 2010, the DOJ announced ( here ) a new type of FCPA enforcement action. While not the first use of undercover techniques in a...

This post provides a summary of FCPA enforcement actions and FCPA related events from the second quarter of 2011. For a similar post regardi...

On May 10th, after a five week trial in the C.D. of California, a jury returned guilty verdicts against Lindsey Manufacturing and its execut...

On May 18th, U.S. District Court Judge James Selna (C.D. Cal.) denied the Carson "foreign official" challenge and concluded that ...

At the time of this post, the U.K. Bribery Act has been live for about ten hours, yet there has not been an enforcement action. Given that t...

Imagine I give a test to the 37 students in my class. However, because of reasons uniquely relevant to many of the students, not all student...

As highlighted in this prior post, numerous FCPA reform bills in the 1980's included a specific defense which stated a company would no...