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...
View ArticleMike 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...
View ArticleDeloitte 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...
View ArticleGerald 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...
View ArticleIraq 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,...
View ArticleDynCorp 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleAlcatel-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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleIdentification 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...
View ArticleWatts 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)...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleFCPA 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...
View ArticleACL 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...
View ArticleCriminal 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...
View ArticleCommon 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...
View ArticlePolitics 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...
View ArticleThe 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)...
View ArticleFCPA 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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