Recovering from a relatively slow start to the year, due in no small part to the global pandemic, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Units of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) closed the year with a bang. With 32 combined FCPA enforcement actions, 51 total cases including ancillary enforcement, and a record-setting $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties (plus billions more collected by foreign regulators), 2020 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement.
This client update provides an overview of the FCPA and other domestic and international anti-corruption enforcement, litigation, and policy developments from 2020, as well as the trends we see from this activity. We at Gibson Dunn are privileged to help our clients navigate these challenges daily and are honored again to have been ranked Number 1 in the
EASTON â A Talbot County judge on Monday found that accused murderer David Faulkner poses a âdanger to the publicâ and again ordered him to remain in the county corrections departmentâs custody in response to an ongoing lawsuit alleging Faulkner is being detained unlawfully.
Circuit Judge Stephen Kehoe, prompted by another judge to clarify whether Faulkner is fit for the pretrial house arrest Kehoe authorized but declined to enforce in August, said while he finds Faulkner is a threat to the community, he still permits the corrections department to supervise him on home detention.
The hearing Monday did not clear up the concerns Faulknerâs attorney raised in a habeas corpus petition that Talbot County Corrections Director Terry Kokolis âdoes not have the authorityâ to hold Faulkner against Kehoeâs having permitted his release to home detention ahead of his May 2021 retrial.