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On July 1, Paramount Global settled the lawsuit brought by President Trump claiming personal harm from alleged “election interference” in the editing of an interview with Kamala Harris by CBS News’ 60 minutes. The agreement called for the company to …
Key Points
In our most recent memorandum, we predicted that President Trump’s second administration would likely entail a significant overhaul of DOJ’s agenda and enforcement priorities. Although we are less than a month into the new Trump Administration, we have already seen …
Why did two federal courts refuse to throw out Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges against two different commodities traders? What revisions did Congress make to the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA)? How has China increased its anti-corruption scrutiny of …
On December 14, 2023, Congress passed the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (“FEPA”) as a component of the annual National Defense Authorization Act to criminally prosecute foreign officials who seek or receive bribes from U.S. persons or businesses. President Biden is …
On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court dramatically changed anticorruption law and enforcement in the United States. In McDonnell v. United States, the court reversed the corruption conviction of the former governor of Virginia and considerably constricted the legal …
On February 26, a long-running legal battle over the scope of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) took another turn when a federal trial court judge ordered that former Alstom executive Lawrence Hoskins be acquitted of the FCPA charges against …
On August 24, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in United States v. Hoskins, rebuffing an attempt by the US Department of Justice (the Department, or DOJ) to expand the …
During a speech delivered on July 25, 2018 at the American Conference Institute 9th Global Forum on Anti-Corruption Compliance in High Risk Markets, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Miner, who oversees the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Fraud Section …
It is a pleasure for me to be here with so many compliance officers, lawyers, auditors, and corporate executives for ACI’s 34th annual conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
I must admit that I was amused by a marketing …
It’s great to be here today [November 30] with so many people involved in the fight against international corruption. The diversity of this crowd – which includes folks from the public and private sector, from the United States and abroad, …