Yesterday’s post highlighted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (and related) enforcement action against Anthony Stimler (a U.K. citizen and resident who was a trader at Glencore (a commodities company incorporated in the United Kingdom and headquartered in Switzerland).
The FCPA anti-bribery charge against Stimler invoked the so-called 78dd-3 prong of the statute which has the most demanding jurisdictional hook.
Specifically, “while in the territory of the United States, corruptly to make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce or to do any other act in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of any money, or offer, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to” a foreign official.
