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Bribery
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International Financial Law Prof Blog
Charity Executives, Former Arkansas State Senator Indicted for Embezzlement and Public Corruption Scheme
Two former executives of a Springfield, Missouri-based charity and a former Arkansas state senator have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a multi-million-dollar public corruption scheme…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Big batch of federal plea deals (with relatively low sentencing ranges) in college admissions scandal
This press release from the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, headlined "14 Defendants in College Admissions Scandal to Plead Guilty," reports on the latest developments in the…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
The Founder and Chairman of a Multinational Investment Company, a Company Consultant and Two North Carolina Political Figures are Charged with Public Corruption and Bribery
A federal criminal indictment unsealed in the Western District of North Carolina charges the founder and Chairman of a multinational investment company, a company consultant and two North Carolina political…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Texas Men Arrested for Bribery, Attorney Laundered Via IOLTA Account
Three Texas men, including a former Weslaco City Commissioner and a former Hidalgo County Commissioner, were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Review of the UK Bribery Act 2010 – House of Lords Committee publishes Post-Legislative Scrutiny Report
By Neil O’May (UK), Pamela Reddy (UK), Andrew Reeves (UK), Maria Kennedy (UK), Lorenza Cocco (UK)
Earlier this month, the House of Lords Select Committee (the Committee) on the Bribery Act 2010 published its Post-Legislative Scrutiny Report. The Report provides a useful summary of prosecutions under…
White Collar Briefly
Higher Ed: Admissions Scandal Wake Up Call
By Kevin Feldis, Caryn Trombino, Markus Funk
The arrests in the college admissions bribery scandal may have ushered in a new era of scrutiny by federal law enforcement. Perkins Coie attorneys anticipate questions that prosecutors, civil litigants…
The Ethical Investigator
College Admissions Scandal: More Indictments Coming?
By Philip Segal
Get ready for college admissions scandals phase II, and maybe III, IV and V. The reason I think so? Because of the way it was discovered. Prosecutors didn’t break up…
FCPA Professor
Canadian Court Finds That Bribery Is A Specific Intent Offense And That Government Failed To Prove That Defendant Knew That Bribe Recipient Was A “Foreign Public Official”
By Mike Koehler
This 2014 post highlighted Canadian charges against Robert Barra and Shailesh Govindia (individuals previously associated with Cryptometrics) for bribing Indian officials including those associated with Air India.As highlighted in the below…
The Faculty Lounge
There is An Important Difference between Influence and Bribery
My friend Shamus Khan, chair of the sociology department at Columbia, had an excellent oped in Sunday’s Washington Post, titled “How to Weasel Your Kid into an Elite College without…
FCPA Professor
U.S. Secures Approximately $1.7 Billion In FCPA Settlements Largely On The Theory That Gulnara Karimova Is A “Foreign Official” – But Swedish Court Says No She Is Not!
By Mike Koehler
If I ever update my 2009 article “The Facade of FCPA Enforcement” there is going to be special mention of the facts and circumstances discussed in this post.Over the last…