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US Supreme Court Upholds Wire Fraud Convictions, Says Economic Loss Not Required

Cooley LLP on 6/4/2025

When an executive learns that she is being investigated for fraud, her first reaction often is: “But I didn’t intend for anyone to lose money!” This entirely understandable response may well be true (and lead the executive to...more

Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: A New Era of Risk for Global Businesses

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 2/6/2025

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more

Navigating U.S. Sanctions and Export Control Restrictions

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 11/14/2023

Over the last several months, companies have become entangled in an increasingly complex web of new and expanded sanctions and export control restrictions related to Russia in response to its war on Ukraine. The current...more

Akamai and Nortek – DOJ Touts Declinations Under FCPA Pilot Program

The Volkov Law Group on 6/14/2016

DOJ’s FCPA Unit knows what they are doing. In the immediate weeks after the release of the FCPA Pilot Program, DOJ publicly released two declination letters for Akamai Technologies and Nortek, Inc. and the SEC announced...more

A Case to Watch: Highway Contractor Appeals $663M False Claims Act Judgment

Troutman Pepper on 10/27/2015

On August 31, 2015, highway contractors Trinity Industries, Inc. and Trinity Highway Products, LLC (collectively, Trinity) appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit a $663,360,750 final judgment entered...more

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 122-with Matt Kelly on Alstom, Avon and Petrobras

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 1/20/2015

In this episode, Compliance Week Editor-in-Chief Matt Kelly and I discuss the Avon and Alstom FCPA enforcement actions and then take a look at the ongoing Petrobras corruption scandal and what it means for Brazil. ...more

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