FCPA Compliance Report

In the second Opinion Release of 2007, 07-02, the Department of Justice (DOJ) considered another scenario where a US company desired to pay for travel to the US of foreign officials and for some busin...

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In 2007, the DOJ issued two Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Opinion Releases which offered guidance to companies considering whether to, and if so how to, incur travel and lodging expenses for go...

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What is a company to do if, in order to obtain a contract with a foreign government, they must agree to invest a percentage of the proceeds of the transaction into the community in which it operates a...

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Can you hire a foreign official as your agent? Is a foreign official always a foreign official for the purposes of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)? Can a person be a foreign official yet not ...

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MARCH 4, 2019 BY TOM FOX In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      Why is prosecuting bankers so hard? (Wall Street Journal)·      Huawei fights back against jailed exec. (Wall Street Journ...

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In this episode I visit with Andrew Beato from the law firm of Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP. We discuss the firm’s recent False Claims Act settlement with Walgreen on behalf of firm client  Marc...

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Tom returns from London to find Sam Rubenfeld announcing his departure from the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal via Twitter. Tom and Jay are back together to take a look  at some of this week’s top co...

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MARCH 1, 2019 BY TOM FOX In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      What should the SEC do about Elon Musk? (Financial Times)·      Israeli PM to be arrest on corruption charges. (New York T...

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