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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Actions Down, Prosecutions of Individuals Up

April 28, 2013

A recent article in Corporate Counsel noted a somewhat strange trend in federal enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the primary federal law used to prohibit payment of bribes to foreign government officials. The article notes that 2013 has started off as a very slow year for FCPA enforcement actions, with either one or zero […]

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Federal Criminal Charges Brought Against Macon State Prison Officers

April 17, 2013

Yesterday the Department of Justice announced that the deputy warden of Macon State Prison and seven former prison officers have been indicted in the Middle District of Georgia on federal charges including civil rights violations, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. The charges follow previous guilty pleas by three other former Macon State Prison officers. The […]

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Federal Criminal Charges Brought Against Internet Sports Gambling Business

April 15, 2013

The Department of Justice recently announced the unsealing of indictments in the Western District of Oklahoma against 34 individuals and 23 corporate entities charging them for participation in a vast international gambling and money-laundering scheme. The alleged gambling scheme involves acts spanning nearly a decade in three countries. The government claims that over the period, […

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Lacey Act Indictments Continue to Increase in Federal Court

March 19, 2013

Last week, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of eight men from across the U.S. on charges of violations of the Lacey Act, a federal law that prohibits the trade in protected animal and plant species. The government claims in four separate indictments that the defendants— Petr Babenko, Felix Baravik, Dmitri Elitchev, Arkadiy Lvovskiy, […]

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Recent Federal Tax Fraud Prosecutions in Georgia

February 11, 2013

On Friday, two more Georgians were arrested on federal charges of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to defraud the government stemming from an alleged tax fraud scheme. These arrests are just two of many recent tax fraud prosecutions in both federal and state courts in Georgia. Kevin Joseph Sonnier and Bernardo Davis, both […]

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