Bribery, Appeals, White Collar Crimes

Second Circuit Decision Clarifies Scope of Honest Services Wire Fraud Statute

WilmerHale on 7/11/2025

On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in United States v. Lopez that foreign commercial bribery schemes fall within the ambit of the honest services wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. §...more

Second Circuit Affirms FCPA Acquittal of Former Alstom Executive

Foley Hoag LLP on 8/23/2022

On August 12, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a 2-1 decision affirmed the decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to partly overturn the conviction of Lawrence Hoskins...more

Notice of Appeal - Spring 2021

Cozen O'Connor on 4/16/2021

Precedential Opinions of Note - Government Must Prove Falsity Under Any Objectively Reasonable Standard - United States v. Harra (January 12, 2021), No. 19-1105 http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/191105p.pdf Unanimous...more

United States v. Hoskins & Scoville v. SEC: DOJ & SEC extend their extraterritorial reach for FCPA & securities fraud charges

White & Case LLP on 11/19/2019

The SEC and DOJ recently received positive news in two enforcement actions that had been challenged on grounds of extraterritoriality. These cases illustrate the ongoing judicial efforts to define the extraterritorial reach...more

Notice of Appeal - October 2019

Cozen O'Connor on 10/9/2019

Precedential Opinions of Note - Court Remands Habeas Petition for Evidentiary Hearing on Potential Constitutional Violations - BACKGROUND - A jury convicted Defendant of burglary, robbery, and felony-murder. The...more

Second Circuit Declines to Limit FCPA's Scope

McDermott Will & Schulte on 8/21/2019

The Second Circuit’s decision in United States v. Ng Lap Seng is a win for the government, because it reinforces the broad reach and scope of the Justice Department’s enforcement of the FCPA. When adopting and implementing an...more

UK Court of Appeal Extends Privilege in Internal Investigations

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 9/26/2018

Brief Comments on The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 2006 - On Sept. 5, 2018, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales handed down a unanimous...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

Second Circuit Limits Extraterritorial Application of FCPA

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/7/2018

On August 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision that announced a new and important limitation on the application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)....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

English Court Questions the Application of Litigation Privilege in Criminal Investigations

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/17/2017

On 8 May 2017, the English High Court of Justice handed down judgment in The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd,1 which could significantly limit the application of litigation...more

NY Court of Appeals Finds Personal Jurisdiction Based on Use of NY Correspondent Bank Accounts

Proskauer - Minding Your Business on 12/6/2016

A sharply divided New York Court of Appeals recently held that defendants who allegedly made intentional and repeated use of New York correspondent bank accounts for money laundering thereby purposefully transacted business...more

New York Court of Appeals Finds 'Repeated, Deliberate Use' of Correspondent Account Sufficient to Establish Personal Jurisdiction...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/6/2016

In a decision that has implications for non-U.S. financial institutions with correspondent accounts in New York, a closely divided New York Court of Appeals held on November 22, 2016, that the “[r]epeated, deliberate use [of...more

If I could turn back prosecutorial time...

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/15/2016

The case of R v AIL, GH and RH, one of the first the Court of Appeal has considered in 2016, is an interesting one from the perspective of all white-collar crime practitioners. The Court of Appeal had to consider whether it...more

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