On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (“EO”) titled “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practice Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security.” This EO comes on the tail of Attorney...more
2/12/2025
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On June 3, 2021, President Biden issued his first National Security Study Memorandum, announcing that “countering corruption [is] a core United States national security interest.” It describes corruption as a threat to our...more
Lawrence Hoskins, a British citizen and former employee of French conglomerate Alstom SA, has been found guilty by a federal jury in Connecticut of 11 of 12 criminal charges, including six counts of violating the United...more
11/18/2019
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