https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/the-justice-departments-fcpa-fiasco/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:36:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/the-justice-departments-fcpa-fiasco/comment-page-1/#comment-141587 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:36:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26960#comment-141587 […] Defenders of the government’s aggressive prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act are finding more and more to be defensive about. The latest in the string of setbacks for the Department of Justice came Monday, when a jury acquitted two defendants in the Justice Department’s 2009 Gabon “sting” operation and the case against three others ended in a mistrial. Alison Frankel: “So far, the Justice Department has not managed to convict a single Gabon sting defendant who contested its charges.” [WaPo, WSJ blog and related, earlier] […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/the-justice-departments-fcpa-fiasco/comment-page-1/#comment-141330 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:08:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26960#comment-141330 […] it here first: “Courts push back on bribery prosecutions” […]

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