Anti-bribery enforcement is a real risk
I have sometimes gotten a sense of annoyance from executives — even the ones who are fairly ethically oriented — when it comes to the specter of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: the country’s primary statute to combat international bribery. The law can hold a US company culpable for the actions of its people overseas, […]
Lawyer sport: nice plea, Bernie
Anybody read all of Bernie Madoff’s allocution when he pled guilty? I pasted it, below. It sounds like an odd mea culpa. But it’s actually a neat, precise bit of lawyering. Put aside the lives he shattered, and you can almost enjoy the way his defense team tracks the required elements of the crimes to […]