U.S. exporters are increasingly being duped into selling to end users in Iran, China and other restricted countries that seek illegally to acquire U.S. technology or get around export bans.

The Justice Department has persisted with an irrational strategy of repeatedly making the same losing argument in its effort to frustrate landowners’ right to be paid for that property which the federal government has taken under the National Trails System Act.

The foreign bribery conviction of a sales agent in the Lindsey Manufacturing Co. case will be vacated if the dismissal of the indictment against the Azuza, Calif.-company and two of its executives stands.

Terree Bowers worked in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Central District of California as head of the office and as special counselor to the U.S. Attorney.

Will a choice parking space be enough to keep employees from squealing to the Securities and Exchange Commission?

Congress has not yet appropriated the money the SEC needs to staff the program created by the Dodd-Frank law, but the agency continues to receive tips through a separate office. UPDATED 6:16 p.m.

Two former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers now at Arent Fox LLP suggested the securities regulator adopt a rule that prohibits it from sending tipsters back to their companies to look around for more information.

Criminal defense lawyers with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act experience on their resumes are much in demand as the Department of Justice steps up its enforcement.

A provision in the financial regulatory bill would create a “whistleblower bounty” program that would allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to give whistleblowers who report securities violations — including some violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — awards of up to 30 percent of any settlement.