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Podcast: Corruption Crime & Compliance
Episode: Episode 200 -- The Foster Wheeler FCPA Enforcement Action
Description: The Justice Department and the Securities Exchange Commission are back in business. The first corporate FCPA enforcement action in 2021 came after a six-month hiatus in 2021.
The first case against a corporate entity in 2021 is an interesting one because it reflects a coordinated settlement not only between DOJ and the SEC but the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office and Brazil’s Ministério Público Federal (MPF), the ControladorÃa-Geral da União (CGU) and the Advogado-Geral da União (AGU) in Brazil.
Amec Foster Wheeler Energy, a subsidiary of the U.K. global engineering company, W...