In February 2026, Charles Hunter Hobson (who served in a variety of roles at Corsa Coal from 2013 to 2018) was found guilty by a jury for various Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related offenses in connection with an
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In February 2026, Charles Hunter Hobson (who served in a variety of roles at Corsa Coal from 2013 to 2018) was found guilty by a jury for various Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related offenses in connection with an…
In December 2023, Freepoint Commodities resolved a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action in connection with a bribery scheme in Brazil.
The criminal charge of conspiracy to violate the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions was resolved through a deferred prosecution agreement…
In February 2026 Charles Hunter Hobson (who served in a variety of roles at Corsa Coal from 2013 to 2018) was found guilty by a jury for various Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related offenses in connection with an Egyptian…
Previous posts have focused on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions concerning conduct (in whole or in part) in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries.
In total, 66 enforcement actions were highlighted (in…
This post highlights five FCPA enforcement actions (ranging from the largest FCPA settlement of all-time to one of the first FCPA enforcement actions in 1978) concerning conduct (in whole or in part) in Malaysia.
Goldman Sachs (2020)
The enforcement action…
This post highlights the twenty-five FCPA enforcement actions concerning conduct (in whole or in part) in Indonesia.
SAP (2024)
The enforcement action concerned conduct in South Africa and Indonesia.
As to Indonesia, the allegations were: “Between approximately 2015 and 2018,…
In March 2026, the DOJ criminally charged David Ferrera and Marc Tilman with FCPA and related offenses in connection with an alleged bribery scheme involving an employee of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims) in France. (See here for…
Silly?
Warranted?
Somewhere in between?
Who knows.
But the back and forth between the DOJ and Judge Nicholas Garaufis (E.D.N.Y.) in connection with the DOJ’s consent motion to dismiss in US v. Adani et al continues.
Earlier this week,…