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Bribery
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Inside Political Law
Gratuity or Gift? The Supreme Court May Soon Delineate the Difference
Federal circuit courts are split on a core question of corruption law: whether state and local officials, and agents of organizations that contract with or receive benefits from the federal…
FCPA Professor
DOJ Announces Individual Enforcement Action In Connection With A Bribery Scheme Involving The Honduran National Police
By Mike Koehler
Last week 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…
Food Safety News
Brazilian judge cuts $2.1 billion off JBS owner’s bribery fines
By Dan Flynn
Did you get something big for Christmas? Big?!! I bet it was not as big as the gift a Brazilian Supreme Court judge gave J&F, the family investment firm that…
FCPA Professor
Supreme Court To Hear Bribery Case
By Mike Koehler
Given how the government enforces the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (most corporate resolutions generally lack any meaningful judicial scrutiny and individual enforcement actions are generally rare), the Supreme Court has…
FCPA Professor
Issues To Consider From The Freepoint Commodities Enforcement Action
By Mike Koehler
This recent post highlighted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action against Freepoint Commodities based on alleged bribery schemes in Brazil. (This post discussed the related Commodities Future Trading Commission enforcement…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Supreme Court Grants Cert. Petition in Snyder v. United States
There is a circuit split on whether 18 U.S.C. Section 666 prohibits bribes alone or bribes and gratuities. We recently discussed it here. Yesterday the Supreme Court finally decided to resolve…
FCPA Professor
Checking In On Trafigura
By Mike Koehler
Trafigura, a global commodities company has been under Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and related scrutiny, for several years. Last week, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland announced that a…
The Right Coast
With Hunter s indictment, Democrats face a moment of maddening truth | The Hill
The courts have repeatedly found that benefits to family members (far more modest than the millions in this case) can constitute bribery for a politician. That has also been the position of…
The Right Coast
Wray Misdirects Congress Over FBI’s Burying Of Biden Bribery Report
On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, drilled the FBI director on the bureau s handling of reporting from June 2020 of a longtime, highly credible CHS that implicated the Biden…
FCPA Professor
Issues To Consider From The Tysers And H.W. Wood Enforcement Actions
By Mike Koehler
This previous post discussed the related DOJ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions against United Kingdom reinsurance brokers Tysers Insurance Brokers Limited (acquired by AUB Group in 2022) and H.W. Wood…