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 sentencing this individual to 366 days in prison, federal court judge Shira Scheindlin stated: ““After years of supervising this case, it’s still not entirely clear to me whether [….]  is a victim or a crook or a little bit of both.”

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 1993 enforcement action was against a company that manufactured and sold totalisator systems (a machine used for computing and showing bets at a racetrack) and concerned alleged improper payments to officials with the Horse Races Administration of Greece?

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 2009 enforcement action concerned alleged improper payments to Panamanian officials to secure contracts to maintain lighthouses and buoys along Panama’s waterways?

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 a federal trial court judge vacated the trial court convictions and dismissed the indictment against this company and individuals after finding numerous instances of prosecutorial misconduct – “so many in fact, and so varied, and occurring over so lengthy a period … that they add up to an unusual and extreme picture of a prosecution gone badly awry.”

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 individual testified on behalf of the DOJ at both the Nov. 2010 FCPA hearing in the Senate and the June 2011 FCPA hearing in the House.