Episode 374 -- Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance
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Upping Your Game: Continuous Monitoring with AI
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
FCPA Compliance Report: The Role of Culture and Data in Fraud Risk Management - A Conversation with Vincent Walden
Compliance in the Former Soviet Central Asian Republics
Innovation in Compliance: Staying the Course in Compliance: Insights from Kristy Grant-Hart
FCPA Compliance Report: The Power of Peer Support and Purpose Driven Leadership with Sarah Cole
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FCPA Compliance Report: Upping Your Game in Compliance
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FCPA Compliance Report: Ethical Decision - Making in Times of Change
Great Women in Compliance: Exploring the Future of Compliance - Key Takeaways from Compliance Week 2025
Upping Your Game: Episode 1 – Meeting Hui Chen’s Challenge
FCPA Compliance Report: From Compliance to Commercial Value: Removing Friction with AI
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FCPA Compliance Report: Ellen Hunt on Compliance ROI and on a Due Diligence and the US Sentencing Guidelines
FCPA Compliance Report: Amanda Carty on a Due Diligence and Risk Management
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
In reviewing FCPA bribery fact patterns, it is a rare occasion when a company’s CEO is at the epicenter of the criminal conspiracy. In the BIT Mining case, standing atop all of the actors is the CEO Zhengming Pan, Bit...more
You have to give the Justice Department credit — after two slow enforcement years, DOJ is starting off 2024 with a relative “bang;” first, DOJ reached a large settlement with SAP in January, and now, DOJ has reached a...more
As we have repeatedly noted in the context of other blog posts and webinars in which various representatives of The Volkov Law Group have participated, the violation of existing U.S. sanctions and export control regulations...more
On November 29, 2023, Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) policymakers announced explicitly that they are, for the first time, leveraging data analytics to help proactively identify and prosecute crimes in foreign...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and case developments from the past month,...more
On 24 May 2022, Glencore International AG announced a series of coordinated resolutions with various international enforcements agencies including the Department of Justice (”DOJ”), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...more
The Justice Department announced the arrest and indictment of Charles Hunter Hobson for violating the FCPA, money laundering and receiving kickbacks arising from a bribery scheme to pay government officials in Egypt in...more
While we wait for the coming FCPA enforcement storm, DOJ and the SEC have quietly continued to rack up and resolve several enforcement actions....more
Fraud Scheme Results in $56 Million Seized as Largest Recovery of Cryptocurrency by US - On November 12, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California’s request was...more
In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more
In a landmark action on December 3, 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) announced resolution of its first enforcement action involving foreign corruption by issuing an order and settling charges against...more
We rarely have seen a single Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action generate so many individual criminal pleas. The Sargeant Marine Inc. (Sargeant Marine) case is an exception. To date, there have been six...more
Recently we saw one of the most blatant cases of bribery and corruption brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the form of a guilty plea by Sargeant Marine Inc. (Sargeant Marine), an asphalt company, related to...more
The Justice Department announced a guilty plea to FCPA charges by Sargeant Marine, Inc., a privately-owned company, based in Boca Raton, Florida. Sargeant Marine, an asphalt company, plead guilty to one count of conspiracy...more
We are the end of my multi-part exploration of the Herbalife Nutrition Ltd (Herbalife) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission...more
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd (Herbalife) recently concluded a long running Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Herbalife...more
FCPA cases can arise in un usual situations. DOJ has focused two separate prosecutions on bribery and fraud involving adoptions from Uganda and Poland. At the heart, the defendants bribed Ugandan and Polish authorities to...more
On July 3, 2020, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released the Second Edition of their Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the “Resource Guide”). As...more
IN THIS ISSUE - • Anticorruption Developments • Export Control Sanctions and Customs Enforcement • Export Control and Sanctions Developments • Global Investigations Resources • Writing and Speaking Engagements ...more