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Sentence Handed Down in Minnesota’s First Felony Conviction for Criminal Wage Theft

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Last week, a Hennepin County judge sentenced an employer following a first-of-its-kind criminal conviction for wage theft in Minnesota. Since its enactment in 2019, Minnesota’s Wage Theft Prevention Act has imposed stringent...more

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OFAC Settles with Construction Specialties, Inc. for $660,594 for Violations of Iran Sanctions

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Construction Specialties, Inc. (“CSI”), a U.S. company specializing in the sale of building materials, agreed to pay $660,594 to settle its liability for three violations of OFAC’s sanctions on Iran. CSI’s illegal conduct...more

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ADG Insights: Bribery and corruption continues to be a risk for ADG companies - February 2020

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The anti-corruption and bribery enforcement landscape is constantly evolving. Companies operating in the Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services (ADG) industry sector must therefore vigilantly track developments in this...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Two Tickets to Paradise and the Thiruvengadam FCPA Settlement

We got a fair bit more clarity on the Cognizant Technologies Solutions Corporation (“Cognizant”) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) last week, when Sridhar Thiruvengadam, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) agreed to settle...more

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Lessons Learned from the Cognizant FCPA Resolution (Part IV of IV)

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The Cognizant FCPA enforcement action will go down as a problematic resolution for the policy reasons mentioned in my last post. Putting those concerns aside, there are some important lessons learned and observations that...more

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The Anatomy of a Bribery Scandal: Digging into the Cognizant Bribery Scheme (Part II of IV)

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The Cognizant bribery scheme is another in the line of illegal conspiracies orchestrated by senior management – but this one is even more disturbing for a number of reasons. ...more

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

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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

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

George Carlin and Erga Omnes: the Petrobras Bribery Scandal Expands

On this date in 2008 George Carlin died. If you grew up in the late 1960s or early 1970s and you had anti-parental or anti-establishment inklings, which of course all teenagers do, you knew about George Carlin. In the early...more

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