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American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Mexico Summit on Anti-Corruption & Compliance Programs - March 12th - 13th, Polanco, CDMX, Mexico

Connect with the leading Anti-Corruption experts and discuss the latest compliance strategies at ACI’s Mexico Summit on Anti-Corruption & Compliance Programs. As Mexico’s longest running, premier anti-corruption and...more

Alston & Bird

Expanding U.S. Prosecutors’ Anti-Corruption Toolkit: FEPA Is Signed into Law

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Signed into law on December 22, 2023, the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) signals a further focus by the U.S. government on anti-corruption enforcement. Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Corrupt Foreign Leaders Now on the Hook for Bribery Charges: Congress Passes the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act

On December 14, 2023, with bipartisan support, Congress passed the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (“FEPA”), making it a federal crime for any foreign government official to demand, receive, or agree to receive a bribe from...more

Foley Hoag LLP

U.S. Congress Passes Foreign Extortion Prevention Act Imposing Liability on Foreign Officials Who Receive or Demand Bribes From...

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The U.S. Congress has passed the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (“FEPA”), as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (“NDAA”). On December 14, 2023, the measure was sent to President Biden, who...more

Hogan Lovells

DOJ issues rare FCPA advisory opinion regarding the extortion exception

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On January 21, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Opinion Procedure Release (the “OPR” or “OPR 22-01”) addressing the rarely discussed extortion exception to the FCPA’s...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Uber Criminal Complaint Raises the Stakes for Breach Response

On August 20, 2020, a criminal complaint was filed charging Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with an alleged attempted cover-up of a...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Can Hackers be Ethical, not Evil?

We are increasingly seeing situations in which a client’s information systems are breached by an ethical hacker. Typically, they take a screen shot or two of data to prove their accomplishment, carefully redact any...more

Polsinelli

BitBlog Weekly Summary

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This summary covers the last two weeks which includes news about continued enforcement actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) involving fraudulent digital asset transactions, dismissal of a securities...more

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