Tomorrow Ryan Braun will accept the National League MVP Award. He will accept this award for having a superlative 2012 season; which, as reported by MLB.com, included a “Batting Average of .332 with 33 home runs and 111 RBIs while leading the Brewers to the NL Central title.” He will also accept this MVP Award while “facing a 50-game suspension after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone late last season.” Braun has appealed this suspension and the matter is currently in the appeals process.
The above came to mind as I read recent blog posts by the FCPA Professor and the FCPA Blog, that there is a new entry into the Nigerian-Bonney Island Bribery Scandal. That entrant is the Japanese trading company, Marubeni Corporation, which the Department of Justice announced it had settled an enforcement action with this past week. As reported by the FCPA Professor, Marubeni was retained by the joint venture, TSKJ, “to help it obtain and retain business in Nigeria, including by offering to pay and paying bribes to Nigerian government officials.”
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