Both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the agreement by the Dutch company, Snamprogetti Netherlands BV, (Snamprogetti) to pay a $240 million criminal penalty to the DOJ to resolve charges related... Read More

In November, 2009 the Organization for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced a new recommendation at the OECD's celebration of "International Anti-Corruption Day" and the Tenth Anniversary of the " Entry into... Read More

The Supreme Court rejected the SEC's effort to extend the five year statute of limitations for imposing a civil penalty by engrafting a discovery exception onto the statute. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a unanimous Court, held that under... Read More

Earlier this year the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a new initiative encouraging cooperation. They wanted to start using Cooperation Agreements, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, and Non-prosecution Agreements. They finally got use... Read More

Lindsey Manufacturing, the first company to stand trial on FCPA charges, was convicted on all counts by a jury in the Central District of California yesterday. Keith Lindsey, Steve Lee and Angela Aguilar were also convicted. Mr. Lindsey is the owner... Read More

The SEC was about to try its first FCPA case. Then the Commission settled, agreeing to drop the bribery charges as well as its demand for monetary sanctions. That ended the case against two Nobel Corporation executives SEC v. Jackson, Civil Action No... Read More

FCPA enforcement officials have repeatedly emphasized that they intend to focus on individuals as an effective means of halting possible violations. A case unsealed yesterday underscores this point. The action, based on an indictment returned last... Read More

One of the more enjoyable aspects of a baseball season is its length. The fortunes of a team can ebb and flow over the course of a 162 games season. So even if a team starts out abysmally, it can pick things up over the course of the spring and summer... Read More

In a recent posting, the FCPA Blog posed the question of whether a company employee was warned "that concealing information from company lawyers conducting an internal FCPA investigation could be a federal crime?" The FCPA Blog raised this... Read More

Among the very, very latest trends in securities class action lawsuit filings are suits against for-profit educational companies. Just since the middle of last week, at least five companies in this sector have been tagged with new lawsuits, four of... Read More

"We are in a new era of FCPA enforcement" Assistant AG Lanny Breuer declared in remarks at a conference on Tuesday . The Department of Justice is stepping up FCPA enforcement, which is good for business, despite the contention of some critics... Read More

Earlier this month, in the FCPA Blog , Bruce Hinchey discussed his upcoming publication, " Punishing the Penitent: Disproportionate Fines in Recent FCPA Enforcements and Suggested Improvements " which analyzes differences between bribes... Read More

The prognosticators have now spoken (yet again) and decreed that the Houston Astros will be this year's worst team in baseball. We are well into the first week of Spring Training and the Houston Chronicle has reported that Baseball Prospectus has... Read More

The blog site International Construction reported, on January 31, 2011 that the Japanese company JGC announced has agreed to pay a $244 million penalty to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve charges related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices... Read More

In what the FCPA Blog termed a day of making history "for the most companies to simultaneously settle FCPA-related violations, [the] Global logistics firm Panalpina and five of its oil-and-gas services customers resolved charges with the DOJ and... Read More