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Yesterday saw the OECD host an Anti-Bribery Ministerial meeting in Paris to discuss how to strengthen the implementation of its Anti-Bribery Convention. In the run up to the meeting, the respective heads of Corruption Watch UK, Transparency International, Global Witness and the UNCAC Coalition each signed an open letter dated 10 March 2016, addressed to the OECD's Secretary General.

Perpetrators who return money to their victims after a fraud has been uncovered will obtain no benefit under this provision.

Twenty-five years ago, the Supreme Court in United States v. Zolin, 491 U.S. 554 (1989) endorsed the use by district judges of in camera and ex parte review of privileged documents in order to determine whether the privilege was vitiated by the crime-fraud exception.

Those of you who follow, or at least sporadically read, this blog know that it attempts to treat in a considered way important issues facing the white collar bar and our clients.

On October 29, 2015, Part 6 of the U.K. Modern Slavery Act 2015 ("MSA 2015") came into force. The MSA 2015 has been described as a "historic milestone" by the U.K. Home Secretary and is representative of the increased focus on combatting human trafficking in global supply chains that we have seen from both U.S. and U.K. regulators in recent months.

In a show of solidarity, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a guidance manual for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), aptly titled FCPA: A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Enforcement authorities have used the FCPA's books and records provision to pursue violations that do not involve bribery.

On June 12, 2012, Broward County authorized its County Attorney to draft a wage theft ordinance for consideration by the County Commission.

"Short selling promotes market liquidity." "Short selling is un-American." "Public companies that choose to fight short sellers are always fraudulent enterprises." "Hedge fund short sellers are heroes; they uncovered Enron." "Hedge funds can only make money by engaging in elaborate market manipulations that buy off research analysts and spread untruths into the marketplace."

Based on the current public scrutiny that compounding pharmacies are under due to the outbreak of fungal meningitis in Massachusetts, pharmacy executives may want to review their internal procedures for compliance with the FDCA to ensure they are robust.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission recently promulgated amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines that pertain to the sentencing of corporations and other organizations.

In a recent case, a parent company took out a crime insurance policy for itself and its subsidiaries. When a property manager for its subsidiary

On July 16, 2007, in U.S. v. Stein, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed criminal charges pending against 13 of 16 defendants, all former partners or employees of the KPMG accounting firm, after finding that the government's actions in pressuring KPMG not to advance the defendants' legal expenses violated their constitutional rights to due process and legal counsel.

On January 25, 2011, officials from the US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission reiterated their commitment to aggressive FCPA enforcement for the current year.

In 2016, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued to give high priority to False Claims Act (FCA) investigations and prosecutions.

In the past two months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission initiated investigations of about 80 companies for potential accounting and disclosure problems relating to the dating of their stock option grants.

The Northern District of Georgia held the CEO and a senior vice president of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals in contempt for their repeated delays in carrying out a court-ordered recall.