Corruption, Public Contracts, Department of Justice (DOJ)

DOJ Indicts Indian Billionaire and Seven Other Individuals for Bribery and Fraud Scheme Involving Payments to Indian Government...

The Volkov Law Group on 12/20/2024

In a far-reaching criminal case, in November 2024, the Justice Department unsealed a complex, five-count indictment in the Eastern District of New York charging eight defendants, including Gautam S. Adani, Sagar R. Adani and...more

Court Reverses Foreign National’s FCPA Conviction, Setting a High Bar to Establish an Agency Relationship

Cozen O'Connor on 2/28/2020

A ruling issued on Wednesday, February 26 by a Connecticut federal court details the type of control necessary to find that a foreign national acted as an agent of a U.S. domestic concern for purposes of falling within the...more

Ericsson Agrees To Pay Over USD $1 Billion To Settle FCPA Charges

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/3/2020

On December 6, 2019, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or the Company), resolved long-running investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the...more

Second Circuit Decision Rejects Expansion of Geographic Reach of FCPA

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 9/7/2018

A Brief Overview of the FCPA - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a federal statute that prohibits United States companies and individuals from bribing foreign government officials in order to gain or retain...more

Court of Appeals Cuts Back Extraterritorial FCPA Jurisdiction Over Foreign Nationals

The Volkov Law Group on 9/5/2018

The Justice Department’s attempt to assert broad jurisdiction over foreign nationals was rebuked in a recent US Court of Appeals decision in United States v. Hoskins....more

Embraer FCPA Enforcement Action – Part II

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 10/26/2016

Today I continue my exploration of the recently announced Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with the announcement of the...more