FCPA Challenge

How much do you know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Let’s find out.
To commemorate the FCPA’s 40th year, FCPA Professor is presenting the FCPA Challenge.
Each Thursday during 2018, a question will be posed and the answer will be below the fold.
This week’s question is: this 1989 enforcement action in connection with the Foreign Military Sales program (in which the U.S. government made loans to certain foreign governments to finance the purchase of defense items of U.S. origin) included the allegation that a Niger “foreign official” “traveled from Washington, D.C. to Niger for his wedding and subsequent honeymoon in Paris, Stockholm and London, using tickets charged to a [the company’s] account.”
FCPA Challenge

How much do you know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Let’s find out.
To commemorate the FCPA’s 40th year, FCPA Professor is presenting the FCPA Challenge.
Each Thursday during 2018, a question will be posed and the answer will be below the fold.
This week’s question is: this 1999 enforcement action is believed to be the first FCPA enforcement action based soley on travel and entertainment issues?
FCPA Challenge

How much do you know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Let’s find out.
To commemorate the FCPA’s 40th year, FCPA Professor is presenting the FCPA Challenge.
Each Thursday during 2018, a question will be posed and the answer will be below the fold.
This week’s question is: this 2010 SEC enforcement action concerning conduct in China and Vietnam included allegations that the company approved of and reimbursed its employee for questionable expenses including “flowers for the wife of the CEO” of an alleged state-owned or state-controlled enterprise.
FCPA Challenge

How much do you know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Let’s find out.
To commemorate the FCPA’s 40th year, FCPA Professor is presenting the FCPA Challenge.
Each Thursday during 2018, a question will be posed and the answer will be below the fold.
This week’s question is: a 2015 FCPA trial against this defendant largely fell apart when the presiding judge asked the DOJ’s star witness: “did you have a hallucination”?
FCPA Challenge

How much do you know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Let’s find out.
To commemorate the FCPA’s 40th year, FCPA Professor is presenting the FCPA Challenge.
Each Thursday during 2018, a question will be posed and the answer will be below the fold.
This week’s question is: in 2011 the SEC used a deferred prosecution agreements (its first in the FCPA context) to resolve an FCPA enforcement action against this company?