Last week the FCPA Professor wrote, in a post entitled “Stop Drinking The Kool-Aid”, about the Declination to Prosecute that Morgan Stanley received from the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the affair involving the Morgan Stanley Managing Director Garth Peterson and his self-admitted Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violation. Once again showing that sometimes the Professor and I look at (or read or hear) the same thing and come to different conclusions, as I would posit that the Morgan Stanley Declination was the most significant FCPA enforcement (or perhaps non-enforcement) matter of 2012 to date.
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