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Entries in Mexico (91)

Thursday
May162013

Wal-Mart busts its FCPA budget

Wal-Mart said Thursday it spent $73 million on FCPA-related expenses during the first quarter of 2013. It had budgeted $40 million to $45 million.

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Monday
May132013

Wal-Mart’s Victims Part VII: The Path Forward

After a brief end-of-the-semester hiatus we’re picking back up our series on Wal-Mart’s victims.  And we’re less than half-way through.

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Monday
Apr222013

Wal-Mart's Victims Part V: What the World Needs Now

Thursday’s landmark  Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum has more relevance to the FCPA and Wal-Mart than you might think.

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Tuesday
Apr162013

Wal-Mart’s Victims Part II: The Discourse of White-Collar Crime

The Siemens enforcement action is a powerful example of what FCPA enforcement is today . . . and what it is not.

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Monday
Apr152013

Pulitzer Prize to New York Times for Wal-Mart bribery report

David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab of the New York Times were awarded the Pulitzer Prize Monday for their investigation of Wal-Mart's alleged bribery in Mexico and the cover up that followed.

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Monday
Apr152013

Wal-Mart’s Victims Part I

It’s probably fair to say that the corporate poster child of FCPA enforcement, right now, is Siemens. But that’s about to change. 

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Friday
Apr052013

Four Bizjet execs indicted, two plead guilty

Four former executives of BizJet International Sales and Support Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG, were charged in a criminal indictment unsealed Friday for their alleged participation in a scheme to pay bribes to government officials in Latin America.

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Wednesday
Mar272013

Wal-Mart uncertain about size of 'probable' FCPA loss

Wal-Mart said in its annual report filed with the SEC Tuesday that because of uncertain outcomes of U.S. and foreign government bribery investigations and civil suits filed by shareholders, it 'can provide no assurance that these matters will not be material' to its business in the future.

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Thursday
Mar072013

SEC asks Tesco about FCPA, use of agents

Oil and gas services firm Tesco Corporation said this week the SEC asked it to 'preserve and retain' documents related to FCPA compliance and its use of commercial agents in an undisclosed country.

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Thursday
Feb282013

Wal-Mart probe hits Kimco Realty

The biggest operator of shopping malls in the United States said it received a subpoena from the SEC in connection with the ongoing FCPA investigation of Wal-Mart.

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