Compliance Communications Blog
Apr 29, 2015 • Compliance Wave
4/29/15: The US Department of Justice recently announced that its Asset Forfeiture Program has returned more than $4 billion in civilly and criminally forfeited funds to crime victims since fiscal year 2002. Some $723 million has been paid to over 150,000 crime victims in the last three years alone. Now, $4 billion is...
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Apr 14, 2015 • Compliance Wave
4/14/15: There may be rumblings that the US Department of Justice has eased up on FCPA enforcement, but the Department has made sure there’s no doubt about its enforcement of anticompetitive laws. The last big hit came against Bosch, the 34th company to have pleaded guilty or agreed to plead...
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Mar 31, 2015 • Compliance Wave
3/31/15: $3.3 billion dollars was returned to the US Treasury in 2014 from criminal and civil investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services of medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, chiropractors, hospice facilities and others, according to...
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Jan 06, 2015 • Compliance Wave
1/6/15: When you get into the hundreds of millions of dollars, “largest” takes on a whole new meaning. French energy and transportation company Alstom S.A. recently pleaded guilty to charges of violating the books and records provisions of the FCPA. The plea was met by a penalty of more than $772 million, making it the largest-ever criminal...
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Jan 06, 2015 • Compliance Wave
1/6/15: When you’re planning out 2015’s compliance goals, activities, and projects, it’s probably a good idea to look back at what happened in 2014. Matteson Ellis gives a helping hand with an article featured on Corporate Compliance Insights (reprinted with permission from Ellis’ FCPAmericas Blog). The article, “What FCPA Enforcement was Thinking...
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