A former G.E. Energy executive has appealed a June district court ruling that says Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection doesn’t apply overseas.
U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison said it would be an “unhappy precedent” to remove himself because his wife’s law firm represented potential witnesses in the case.
The Noble Corp. executive’s demand for SEC investigatory records from the Panalpina cases had threatened to draw a wave of ancillary litigation.
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Google Inc., the dominant search engine, is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.
As a reaction to U.S. enforcement and internal redundancy, multinationals are looking to break down their compliance silos in favor of something more unified.
Can the statute of limitations be extended? There are ways, former prosecutors say.
The temporarily depleted ranks won’t slow efforts to stop tax evaders and identity thieves, the Justice Department says.
The case would be an early ruling on the scope of the Dodd-Frank Act’s anti-retaliation protections for whistleblowers.
John Kelly is departing from Fulbright & Jaworski LLP where he worked for three years as a partner, focusing on health care, white collar crime and government investigations.
Ms. Thorman, along with Craig Earnshaw of FTI Technology, will explore how corporations are increasingly required to conduct anti-bribery due diligence and investigations across the globe.
Listen to Craig Earnshaw discuss his role as co-host of Main Justice’s webinar Foreign Investigations: A Case Study taking place on October 4, 2011 at 1:00 pm EST.
Under pressure from lawmakers, the Justice Department on Friday belatedly released a copy of a non-prosecution agreement finalized in July and August with an Islamic bank linked to terrorist financing networks.
President Barack Obama’s nomination of Kathryn Keneally comes more than two years after his first nominee met jeers on Capitol Hill for her lack of tax experience.
A former leader of the Justice Department Criminal Division Fraud Section will join the white-collar defense group at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP in D.C.
Companies conducting pre-acquisition due diligence on targets outside the United States need to be aware of expanded U.S. jurisdictional theories regarding anti-corruption laws, according to Fulbright & Jaworski LLP senior associate Anne Elkins Murray. Latin America, in particular, has certain red flags.
Jonathan Abernethy was an architect of the 2009 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution of handbag magnate Frederic Bourke, who was the first-ever FCPA defendant to be convicted of being willfully blind to paying bribes.
Historically, leading FCPA lawyers resided in Washington, D.C., close to Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section and the Securities and Exchange Commission. But enforcement trends are bringing non-Washington FCPA lawyers to prominence. We profile the final two lawyers on our list today.
Marsha Gerber, a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, has represented Houston energy companies for two decades.
Will a choice parking space be enough to keep employees from squealing to the Securities and Exchange Commission?
A lawyer who’s given advice around the globe writes a book on how to avoid trouble.
Weatherford, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, first disclosed in 2006 that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating it for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in West Africa.
“The volume of data these customized questionnaires are creating is unbelievable,” said one general counsel. “What are [people] actually doing with it?”
Weatherford said the wider inquiry includes scrutiny of its sales in countries facing U.S. trade sanctions for promoting or tolerating terrorism and Weatherford’s participation in the scandal-ridden United Nations Oil-for-Food program.
To say federal prosecutors are just feathering their nests by aggressively enforcing anti-bribery laws strikes us as a pretty low blow.
In a cover article titled “The Bribery Racket,” Forbes Magazine asks whether increased enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is having any impact on reducing bribery. UPDATED: 4:32 p.m.
In a cover article titled “The Bribery Racket,” Forbes Magazine asks whether increased enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is having any impact on reducing bribery. UPDATED: 4:32 p.m.
For nearly two years, William Jacobson was the right-hand man for Deputy Chief Mark Mendelsohn, the Justice Department’s point man on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Together, they helped bring the statute from a legal no-man’s land to one of the most publicized, and lucrative, enforcement areas in the Justice Department.
BEST FCPA LAWYERS PRACTICE GROUP OF THE YEAR. Main Justice held an awards luncheon in Washington, D.C., to honor top firms in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act arena. This video shows announcement of the finalists and winner in the Practice Group of the Year category.
Mary Jacoby is the founder of Main Justice and Editor-in-Chief of Just Anti-Corruption.
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- Attorney Convicted in Multimillion-Dollar Stock Fraud
- Army National Guard Captain Charged for Alleged Role in Bribery and Wire Fraud Scheme and Two Former Soldiers Sentenced for Their Roles in a Related Scheme
- Two Foreign Nationals Sentenced in Houston to Prison for Human Smuggling
- Former Dallas Securities Broker Sentenced in Oklahoma to 84 Months in Prison for Role in Stock Manipulation Scheme
- Oregon Man Indicted for Alleged Role in $50 Million Securities Fraud Scheme
- Pennslyvania Inmate Sentenced to Life in Prison for Violent Murder of Fellow Inmate
- Former Construction Company Owner Indicted in Nevada for Income Tax Evasion
- Michigan Physician Pleads Guilty for Role in Medicare Fraud Scheme
- Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 89 Individuals for Approximately $223 Million in False Billing
- Community Mental Health Center Program Coordinator Sentenced to 70 Months for Role in $63 Million Fraud Scheme
- Anti-Corruption Portal of the Americas
- City of London Police
- Global Financial Integrity
- GRECO
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Pacer (U.S. Court Documents)
- State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
- TRACE International
- Transparency International
- U.K. Courts
- U.K. Ministry of Justice
- U.K. Office of Fair Trading
- U.K. Serious Fraud Office
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of Justice FCPA Page
- U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- U.S. House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Litigation Releases
- U.S. Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- United Nations Convention Against Corruption
- World Bank Governance and Anti-Corruption
- World Economic Forum - Corruption Initiative