Financial Fraud Law

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The Reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: German Engineering Firm to Pay $32 Million Criminal Penalty
Posted on 10 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

Bilfinger SE, an international engineering and services company based in Mannheim, Germany, has agreed to pay a $32 million penalty to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing government officials of the Federal... Read More

Quoting E-Mails, Government Charges 3 Former Rabobank Traders with Manipulating Yen Libor
Posted on 14 Jan 2014 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

Two former Japanese Yen derivatives traders at Rabobank and the trader responsible for setting Rabobank’s Yen London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) have been charged as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into the... Read More

Company Admits Defrauding Defense Department of Millions
Posted on 16 Jan 2014 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

San Diego-based Vector Planning & Services, Inc., has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in which it admitted to criminally defrauding the Defense Department, and in which it agreed to pay restitution. As part... Read More

Deferred Prosecution Agreements Now Available in the UK
Posted on 14 Feb 2014 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

Prosecutors in the United Kingdom appear to be following the U.S. Justice Department’s lead and are going to be able to use deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), beginning on February 24. Toward that end, the director of the U.K. Serious Fraud... Read More

Lidoderm Settlement Costs Endo Pharmaceuticals $192.7 Million
Posted on 21 Feb 2014 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

Pharmaceutical company Endo Health Solutions Inc. and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. have agreed to pay $192.7 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from Endo’s marketing of the prescription drug Lidoderm for uses not... Read More