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Entries in Legislative History (51)

Monday
Feb062012

Symposium Will Focus On FCPA

The Ohio State Law Journal's FCPA symposium happens March 16 in Columbus.

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Friday
Feb032012

Beyond Balance IV: New Players, Same Playing Field 

Serendipity is a wonderful thing. What better segue from my last posting than yesterday’s announcement that Russia has signed the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. This is a remarkable and important event. I hope we fully understand why.

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Wednesday
Feb012012

Beyond Balance III: Our Forgotten History, cont.

I previously argued in this space that the contemporary FCPA reform debate is strikingly disconnected from history; both camps seem to have collectively forgotten how we believed the FCPA would operate in the world.

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Thursday
Jan262012

Beyond Balance II: Rediscovering the FCPA’s Original Purpose

To understand where the FCPA should go from here, we need to understand where, and how, it began.

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Wednesday
Nov022011

One Of The Great Ones

Former federal judge Stanley Sporkin is one of my heroes.

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Friday
Aug192011

Frontline: Birth Of The FCPA

Why and how did the FCPA become law? Here's a great clip from PBS featuring some eyewitnesses to the events.

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Monday
Jul252011

On News Corp, Some Recommended Reading

Ellen Podgor on her White Collar Crime Prof Blog posted commentary called Murdoch and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Minefield.

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Thursday
May192011

'Foreign Official' Challenge Fails Again

Judge James V. Selna yesterday denied the Carson defendants motion to dismiss ten FCPA-related counts in the indictment against them based on the definition of "foreign official" in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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Wednesday
Mar092011

What Is An 'Instrumentality Thereof'? Let’s Keep It Real

We finally have an opportunity to resolve what many commentators suggest is an intractable issue -- the definition of “instrumentality thereof” as used in the FCPA, and as applied to foreign state-owned-enterprises.

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Monday
Feb282011

'Instrumentalities' And The New World Order

Sovereigns have corporatized and globalized and become the biggest financial players on the planet. It's the governments themselves that have redefined their "instrumentalities" -- the DOJ didn't need to lift a finger.

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