22 Jan 2010
The Justice Department announced its largest bust under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ever on January 20th, arresting 22 people on charges of trying to pay bribes to a foreign official to secure contracts for weapons sales. The foreign official in this case was actually an undercover FBI agent. This signals a new commitment by the Justice Department to conduct large FCPA investigations (this case alone stretched from Las Vegas to London and involved 150 or more investigative agents) with sophisticated tools and strategies.
categories: Legal Perspective
3 Jan 2010
Stewart Baker former Assistant Secretary for Policy at DHS under George W. Bush makes some excellent points in his Dec. 29th 2009 blog Skating on Stilts Are You A Privacy Victim? Part 7. Please read on...and think about what he has to say.
categories: Other
