Law: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 (USA)

“A contrary ruling would create a gaping loophole in the law that would frustrate the FCPA’s statutory purpose,” prosecutors said in their appeal of a foreign bribery case that was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds.

31 March 2022

Robin Longoria, who worked at a now-defunct adoption agency, admitted to falsifying documents to secure US adoptions from Uganda.

24 March 2022

“It is hard to imagine that Mexico’s interest in this suit would be less than that of the United States,” the Sixth Circuit said in ruling that Mexico is a better venue for the case.

21 March 2022

In today’s news roundup, a Republican senator wants to expand the FCPA to target companies that enable alleged human rights abuses in China and a Treasury Department official says the US knows it has its “own corruption problem”.

04 February 2022

The acting chief of the Fraud Section is looking to leave the US Department of Justice for private practice, according to people familiar with the matter.

03 February 2022

A US appeals court heard arguments from two individuals who claimed they were entitled to a whistleblower award in Novartis’s 2016 FCPA case.

01 February 2022

Jeffrey Cottle, a former in-house compliance lawyer, has joined Brown Rudnick as a partner in the firm’s white-collar defence, investigations and compliance practice in Washington, DC and London.

25 January 2022

Iris Bennett is one of two Smith Pachter McWhorter partners to recently leave the firm’s white-collar defence and investigations practice.

24 January 2022

A Brooklyn federal judge dismissed claims by a Chinese distributor that its contract with a US medical device company was unfairly terminated on foreign bribery grounds.

21 January 2022

Manhattan federal prosecutor Edward Imperatore has left the DOJ for Morrison & Foerster.

19 January 2022