Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and.
In the first half of 2022, the US Department of Justice entered into two corporate settlements and the US Securities and Exchange Commission entered into three corporate.
Federal prosecutors in Boston dropped a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against a former U.S. Army colonel and a lawyer just days before they were set to be tried for a second time, after the FBI unearthed text messages suggesting the two were innocent.
Federal prosecutors have dropped the case against a retired U.S. Army colonel and another businessperson on allegations that they conspired to bribe Haitian officials. The move Monday came after new evidence surfaced days before their second trial was to begin. Prosecutors moved to dismiss the indictment against Joseph Baptiste of Fulton, Maryland, and Richard Boncy after the FBI handed over messages between agents about December 2015 calls between Boncy and an undercover agent. The men were convicted in 2019 of soliciting bribes from undercover federal agents who posed as potential investors in a proposed $84 million port project in Haiti. A judge ordered a new trial in 2020.