The Houston-based oil drilling company enters a deferred prosecution agreement more than four years after disclosing an internal probe.

More than a year after the case was first brought, only two of seven defendants have answered the SEC’s allegations of bribery in Argentina.

The presumptive nominee for the Northern District of Illinois has a folksy manner, unlike the man he would succeed, Patrick Fitzgerald.

More than 15 years after his role in a failed effort to bribe officials in Azerbaijan, Swiss international finance attorney Hans Bodmer was sentenced in a Manhattan federal courtroom today.

The overseas defendants have asked a judge to pause an SEC lawsuit, arguing their jurisdictional issues are so distinctive that they should not have to incur millions of dollars in discovery costs while the questions remain unsettled.

Herbert Steffen was too far removed from the United States, U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin says.

Zachary Fardon and Lori Lightfoot are believed to be vying to replace Patrick Fitzgerald in the Northern District of Illinois.

(Subscription required.) More than four years since its investigations began, the Houston contract oil driller agreed to settle foreign bribery allegations in Nigeria and Kazakhstan.

The SEC has separately targeted former executives of Siemens and Magyar for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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Diebold spends $1 million on Q4 FCPA-related costs and sees an operating loss in part due to a settlement accrual.

New Orleans native Kenneth Polite Jr. is a “true success story,” Sen. Mary Landrieu said in announcing her recommendation to the White House.

Defense attorneys for ex telecoms execs from Hungary strike out in their bid for the dismissal of the SEC’s foreign bribery complaint against them.

Former executives at Magyar Telekom plc and attorneys for the Securities and Exchange Commission presented widely different interpretations of the statute of limitations to a federal judge last week.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced the former federal prosecutor’s appointment today.

A pertinent filing which the SEC claims contained false statements under the FCPA was in fact withheld, lawyers for the defendants claim.

Critics of Big Oil’s attack on a new disclosure rule, the two lawmakers gave notice on Wednesday of their intent to file an amicus brief in a lawsuit pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

As he continues to disregard a U.S. criminal indictment for foreign bribery in Argentina, the former Siemens executive Herbert Steffen of Germany on Thursday revisited arguments that related U.S. civil action against him should be dropped on jurisdictional grounds.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday rejected defense efforts for the dismissal of a complaint alleging foreign bribery in Macedonia by executives at a Deutsche Telekom AG subsidiary, saying the alleged conduct had involved e-mail routed via the U.S. and also resulted in false securities filings.

The search for Patrick Fitzgerald’s successor is down to a handful of names.

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Former executives at the Hungarian subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG argued Monday that a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against them alleging foreign bribery should be thrown out.

Perhaps the most famous prosecutor in America lands at a white-shoe firm.

Former executive wants the case dismissed because charges came too late and he says the U.S. court doesn’t have jurisdiction.

As Just Anti-Corruption has reported, they’re more worried about something else.

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Main Justice co-hosted a webcast with FTI Technology on July 11, 2012 titled, “114 FCPA Experts Surveyed: Best Practices Revealed.”

The German telecom giant and a Hungarian subsidiary agreed to pay more than $95 million in combined criminal and civil penalties to resolve foreign bribery violations in Macedonia and Montenegro.