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Potpourri

By Mike Koehler on July 29, 2020 in Basil Al Jarah, Edward Thiessen, FCPA Sentences, Och-Ziff Capital, Och-Ziff Capital Management, Restitution, Sculptor Capital Management, Serious Fraud Office, SFO, Stephen Whiteley, Unaoil, United Kingdom, Victims, Ziad Akle

Agreement in Principle

As highlighted in prior posts here and here in 2016 hedge fund Och-Ziff resolved a $412 million Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action concerning improper business practices in various African countries.

As highlighted in this 2018 post, former shareholders of Canadian mining company Africo Resources Ltd. (“Claimants”) sough restitution pursuant to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act for losses allegedly incurred as a result of Och-Ziff’s bribery of corrupt officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Friday Roundup

By Mike Koehler on April 17, 2020 in Andres Truppel, COVID-19, Eberhard Reichert, ENI, FCPA Sentences, Larry Puckett, Monitor

30 minute sentence, scrutiny alert, monitors, and silly. It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

30 Minute Sentence

As highlighted here, Larry Puckett, one of several individuals associated with Alstom who was criminally charged in connection with an Indonesian bribery scheme, was recently sentenced. Puckett pleaded guilty, cooperated with the DOJ for many years, and testified for the government at the 2019 Hoskins trial.

Judge Significantly Rejects DOJ Sentencing Recommendation – Sentences Hoskins To Approximately One Year For Money Laundering Offenses, DOJ Press Release Omits Material Information

By Mike Koehler on March 9, 2020 in FCPA Sentences, Lawrence Hoskins

As highlighted in this previous post, on February 26th Judge Janet Bond Arterton (pictured – D. Conn) granted Lawrence Hoskins’s motion for acquittal on the seven FCPA charges he was convicted of by the jury. However, the judge denied Hoskins’s motion for acquittal on the five money laundering charges he was convicted of by the jury.

Thus, next up in the long history of the case was sentencing on the money laundering convictions.

As highlighted in this post, Judge Arterton significantly rejected the DOJ’s 7-9 year sentencing recommendation and sentenced Hoskins to approximately 1 year. (See here).