Topic
Corruption
838 published works
Money Laundering Watch
DOJ Indicts Professor and Drug Trafficking Expert for Laundering Proceeds of Venezuelan Corruption Scheme
By Henry E. Hockeimer, Jr., Juliana B. Carter
A Textbook Case of Alleged Money Laundering? On November 18, 2019, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the arrest and unsealed the indictment of Bruce…
Global Investigations & Compliance Review
OFAC Sanctions the Gupta Family for Bribery, Corruption and Misappropriation of South African State Assets
By Kevin McCart, Richard Gibbon
In an earlier post, here, we examined the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (“GloMag”), which was formally implemented by an Executive Order that declared “serious human rights abuses and…
La Revue
The power of youth
A cry from the heart by a hopeful young Lebanese trainee lawyer “What a weary time those years were - to have the desire and the need to live but…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Government Corruption is a Human Rights Issue
Yes, here in the US, we've got constitutional prohibitions on emoluments and federal laws on bribery. But in recent statements, Walter Shaub, former director of the US Office of Government…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Resources on Human Rights and Corruption for US Teachers and Advocates
If you're teaching US Human Rights this year, you may want to include a focus on corruption and human rights -- necessarily a rapidly expanding area of concern for US…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Silber on Foreign Corruption of the Political Process Through Social Welfare Organizations
Norman I. Silber has posted Foreign Corruption of the Political Process Through Social Welfare Organizations on SSRN with the following abstract:Social welfare organizations are prohibited from channeling foreign contributions to…
Money Laundering Watch
EU Efforts to Combat Money Laundering, Terrorism and Corruption Overlook a Very American Approach: Prosecute People
By Peter D. Hardy, Mary K. Treanor
A Modest Proposal The European Union (“EU”) recently has grappled with a series of massive money laundering scandals and strategized about how to more effectively combat international money laundering and…
Simple Justice
The Chief Justice’s Hubby
Few entrenched machines ran better than Chicago’s, or lasted as long. One of the dinosaurs of the Democratic cash machine was Alderman Ed Burke, who owned the 14th Ward. Somebody…
FCPA Professor
Second Circuit Affirms Seng’s Conviction
By Mike Koehler
Previous posts here, here and here highlighted Ng Lap Seng’s Second Circuit appeal after a federal jury convicted him in July 2017 of two counts of violating the FCPA, one count of…
Lawels Blog
Criminal-legal characteristic of bribery
Corruption crimes are the oldest and most common crimes in the world. They threaten democracy, the rule of law, human rights, good governance, violate the principles of equality and social…