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In July 2009, FCPA Professor was launched with this simple mission statement.
Sixteen years and approximately 4,700 posts later, FCPA Professor is still here and the mission remains the same. In fact, FCPA Professor is the longest running daily information

Previous posts here and here highlighted a motion to dismiss in an FCPA (and related) enforcement action involving Smartmatic executives including Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez.
Part of the motion argues that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Snyder (in which

In late 2023, the DOJ announced the unsealing of an indictment criminally charging: Carl Alan Zaglin (the owner of a Georgia-based manufacturer of law enforcement uniforms and accessories); Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno (former Executive Director of the Comité Técnico del Fideicomiso para

The first time ABB resolved a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action was in 2004 concerning conduct in Nigeria, Angola and Kazakhstan.
The second time ABB resolved an FCPA enforcement action was in 2010 concerning conduct in Mexico as well as

With the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement “pause” over (at least as a formal matter), here is where things stand in terms of the current top ten corporate FCPA settlements of all-time actually secured by U.S. law enforcement (in other words