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DOJ Official Says Department Not Deterred By FCPA Setbacks
By C.M. Matthews
Published March 8, 2012, WSJ Corruption Currents
On the heels of several trial defeats for the Justice Department’s foreign bribery squad, one DOJ official says the department has learned from the setbacks but won’t decelerate enforcement efforts. The Justice Department has taken 18 individuals charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to trial over the last year. According to Nathaniel Edmonds, an assistant chief on the Justice Department’s FCPA team, that tally is greater than all of the trials combined brought under the statute in its first 30 years of existence. The 1977 law prohibits bribes to foreign officials to win business. Read more
