By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you’re going to bribe a country, you might as well do it big time. That’s what eight former executives and agents of Siemens AG and its subsidiaries must have figured. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that the eight had been charged with allegedly engaging in a decade-long scheme to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Software company Oracle is being investigated by the FBI, reports the Guardian, in what some see as a trend in the increase of prosecutions under the foreign corrupt practices act (FCPA), which forbids U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign government officials or employees of state-owned companies. “Every week…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Daily Kos website writes that ex-Attorney Gen. Michael Mukasey “has a new gig in which to ply his talents: making it easier for corporations to bribe foreign governments.” The site writes that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA) was designed to prevent U.S.-based multinational corporations from bribing foreign governments. The…
