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FCPA Violation: Nature’s Sunshine Fined by SEC for Bribing Brazilian Officials

Over the last few weeks the featured article section here at CCI has been almost exclusively dedicated to FCPA compliance content. There is good reason for this; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is...

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Mike Koehler on Benchmarking FCPA Compliance and Violations Occurring Even in...

[Editor’s Note: We at CCI are pleased to introduce you to Mike Koehler, our new Featured FCPA Columnist. Mr. Koehler has a wide range of experience and expertise on this emerging topic, and he will be...

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Deloitte Poll Shows Expectation of Increase in FCPA Violations

(The following press release regarding a recent poll taken by Deloitte on expected increases in FCPA violations has been reprinted with Deloitte’s permission. To find out how to become a preferred...

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Gerald and Patricia Green Found Guilty of FCPA Violations in Third FCPA Trial...

This article originally appeared on Professor Koehler’s FCPA Professor website (www.fcpaprofessor.com) and is reprinted with his permission. Mr. Koehler is also CCI’s Featured FCPA Columnist. He has a...

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Iraq and FCPA Violations

[Editor’s note: Mike Koehler, CCI’s FCPA featured columnist, has a few interesting new pieces to share. We have posted his most recent work, regarding Iraq and what constitutes and FCPA violation,...

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DynCorp Fires Executive Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Curtis Schehr

Curtis Schehr was fired by DynCorp International, reports August Cole of the Wall Street Journal. According to Cole, Schehr, who had been DynCorp’s Chief Compliance Officer and Executive Counsel, as...

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More Analysis of the FCPA’s Lurking “Elephant in the Room”: Voluntary Disclosure

This article originally appeared on Professor Koehler’s FCPA Professor website (www.fcpaprofessor.com) and is reprinted with his permission. Voluntary disclosure (i.e. picking up the phone and calling...

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Alcatel-Lucent’s Woes Continue

First it was Lucent Technologies. It settled parallel DOJ and SEC enforcement actions principally based on providing excessive travel and entertainment benefits to Chinese “foreign officials” (see here...

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Top 3 FCPA Hits of 2010 – Part 2: (DING DONG) Avon Calling!

This is the second installment of our three part series on the Top 3 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters of 2010 to date and their significance for the FCPA compliance professional. In Part I...

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Identification of “Red Flags” for Possible Violations of Key U.S. Laws for...

(This post was originally published on September 9th, 2009 and was contributed to Corporate Compliance Insights by Ms. Sharie Brown, a partner at DLA Piper (US) LLP and the Chair of FCPA and Corporate...

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Watts Water: Don’t Get Caught on the (FCPA) Slow Boat to China

This article originally appeared on Professor Koehler’s FCPA Professor website (www.fcpaprofessor.com) and is reprinted with his permission. Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...

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The Master List of Third-Party Corruption Red Flags

This article was republished with permission from FCPAméricas Blog, for which Matteson Ellis is founder, editor and regular contributor. Under the FCPA, companies and individuals can be liable for the...

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When to Use Outside Counsel for FCPA Investigations

This article was republished with permission from FCPAméricas Blog, for which Matteson Ellis is founder, editor and regular contributor. These days, more and more companies are developing internal...

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FCPA Opinion Procedure Releases – An Oft-Forgotten Resource

This article was republished with permission from FCPAméricas Blog, for which Matteson Ellis is founder, editor and regular contributor. At the end of 2013, the DOJ issued its only Opinion Procedure...

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ACL Highlights Top Fraud Risks Companies Must Scrutinize in 2014

GRC Industry Insider Predicts Record FCPA Violation Penalties in Excess of $100 Million  VANCOUVER — February 26, 2014 — In response to growing concern among its customer base regarding an urgent need...

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Criminal FCPA Cases – Targeting Individuals

The Justice Department warned everyone – they are going to prosecute more individuals for criminal violations of the FCPA.  The DOJ has backed up its warning.  Everyone should expect more criminal...

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Common Sense in the Definition of “Instrumentality” Under the FCPA

This article was republished with permission from Tom Fox’s FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. In what can only be called a judicial decision based on common sense, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in...

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Politics and the FCPA

This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. The 2014 mid-term elections were over in a snap. Now everyone is focused on the Presidential...

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The Asia-Pacific Top 10 FCPA Enforcement Actions of 2014

with contributing authors Montse Ferrer and Nicola Dresch Eight of the 10 companies that paid approximately $1.5 billion in 2014 to U.S. authorities to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...

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FCPA Compliance Strategies for Extortion in Latin America

This article was republished with permission from FCPAméricas Blog, for which Matteson Ellis is founder, editor and regular contributor. This post was co-authored by Maryna Kavaleuskaya, a Law Clerk at...

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