Criminal Prosecution, Regulatory Violations, Corporate Counsel

Landmark Enforcement Under U.S. CPSA Leads to Sentencing of Corporate Executives for Failure to Report Product Hazards

Jones Day on 7/15/2025

In June 2025, two former executives were each sentenced to more than three years in prison for conspiracy and failure to report hazardous products to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC"), marking the first...more

Ten Key Facts about SEC Investigations for CEOs and In-House Counsel

Oberheiden P.C. on 4/4/2023

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigates publicly-traded and privately-held companies for a broad range of statutory and regulatory violations. SEC investigations can target issues ranging from...more

2022: The FCPA Year in Review

The Volkov Law Group on 1/10/2023

The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission bounced back in 2022 to restore their records for aggressive FCPA enforcement. At the same time, DOJ announced significant new compliance program...more

Airbus Settlement: Part 1 – Introduction

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 2/3/2020

Last week, Airbus SE (Airbus) settled a long-standing corruption scandal by agreeing to enforcement actions in three countries; France, the United Kingdom and the US. The matter involved a massive, worldwide, long running...more

Top Five Department of Justice FCPA Enforcement Actions in 2019

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 1/2/2020

Welcome to the 2020’s. The past decade helped shape both Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement and corporate compliance programs. 2019 FCPA enforcements bore out many of the developments from the preceding years of...more

Former Herbalife Employees Indicted on FCPA Violations

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 11/15/2019

China continues to be a high-risk location for US companies to do business. While the current administration has laid numerous tariffs on Chinese goods, the fact that it holds 6 billion potential consumers will continue to...more

Cognizant Technology Pays $25 Million for FCPA Violations and Earns Declination — Two Executives are Indicted for Criminal FCPA...

The Volkov Law Group on 2/18/2019

In the first corporate FCPA action of 2019, Cognizant Technology Solutions Company settled its long-running FCPA case, agreeing to pay the SEC $25 million....more

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