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Bribery
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FCPA Professor
It’s Been Six Years Since Leissner Pleaded Guilty, But He Still Has Not Been Sentenced
By Mike Koehler
As highlighted in this prior post, in November 2018 the DOJ announced a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related enforcement action against Tim Leissner (the former Southeast Asia Chairman at Goldman…
FCPA Professor
Oztemel Found Guilty Of FCPA And Related Offenses
By Mike Koehler
In February 2023, the DOJ announced that Glenn Oztemel (previously employed by Arcadia Fuels Ltd. and Freepoint Commodities LLC) and Eduardo Innecco (an agent for the companies) were charged with FCPA…
FCPA Professor
An Interesting FCPA Related Issue
By Mike Koehler
Some interesting Foreign Corrupt Practices Act related issues are tucked away on some court docket just waiting for someone to notice. This post concerns such a story. As highlighted in this…
The Securities Law Blog
SEC Charges John Deere With FCPA Violations for Subsidiary’s Role in Thai Bribery Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Deere & Company, which does business as John Deere, agreed to pay nearly $10 million to resolve SEC charges that it violated…
Legal Profession Blog
Prosecutor Traded Official Acts For Drugs And Sex
The Kentucky Supreme Court granted a motion for permanent disbarment of a former prosecutor who pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraudThe Defendant, on multiple occasions, agreed to take official…
FCPA Professor
Smartmatic Employees (And Others) Criminally Charged In Connection With Bribery Schemes In The Philippines
By Mike Koehler
The DOJ recently announced that a “federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment … charging three executives of an election voting machine and service provider company and…
FCPA Professor
Individual Pleads Guilty To A Bribery Scheme Involving Nepal Airlines
By Mike Koehler
Last month, Julian Aires (an individual associated with a joint venture partner of AAR Corp. – a U.S. based aviation services company) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA’s…
FCPA Professor
Judicial Decision Touches Upon On A Variety Of FCPA Issues
By Mike Koehler
As highlighted in this prior post, in February 2024 Javier Aguilar was convicted by a federal jury “for his role in a scheme to bribe Ecuadorean and Mexican government officials…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Chinese Master Spies Plead Guilty in IRS TE/GE Bribery Scheme
I told you more than a year ago that according to DOJ the Peoples Republic of China hatched an ingenious plan to topple the whole network of Falun Gong religious…
FCPA Professor
FCPA Enforcement Actions Related To South Africa’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Program
By Mike Koehler
It has been highlighted numerous times on these pages. The root cause of certain FCPA enforcement actions is a local law or regulation that force companies into a relationship that is…