In this issue: Is Anyone Not a Foreign Official Under the FCPA?; and Foreign Bribery: Feds Aggressively Use FCPA And the Money Laundering Statute.

Excerpt from 'Is Anyone Not a Foreign Official Under the FCPA?' below:

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of enforcement actions taken by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), as well as a notable expansion of the types of conduct covered by these prosecutions. Increasingly, the government has focused on prosecuting individuals and companies for allegedly corrupt payments to officials of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), rather than more traditional government entities.