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"Extraordinary cooperation" in FCPA investigation earns Virginia corporation a Deferred Prosecution Agreement
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- June 19 2012
On Monday, June 18, 2012, DOJ announced that it had entered into a two-year Deferred Prosecution Agreement with Data Systems & Solutions LLC ("DS&S"), a company that provides design, installation, maintenance and other services at nuclear and fossil fuel power plants, to resolve violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
And then there were none... the last U.S. defendant in the Carson FCPA case enters into plea agreement
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- USA
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- June 15 2012
On June 14, 2012, David Edmonds, the sole remaining U.S. defendant in the Carson FCPA case entered into a plea agreement
Rajat Gupta convicted of conspiracy and insider trading
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- USA
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- June 15 2012
Rajat Gupta, the former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company and board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, was convicted on four of six counts by a federal jury in New York today for providing nonpublic material information to Raj Rajaratnam in 2008
Stanford sentenced to 110 years in prison for his role in Ponzi scheme
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- USA
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- June 14 2012
This afternoon, Judge David Hittner sentenced R. Allen Stanford to 110 years in prison for his decades-long Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of over $7 billion
Supreme Court grants cert to determine if plaintiff must prove materiality before certifying class in securities fraud class action
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- USA
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- June 12 2012
On Monday, June 11, 2012, the Supreme Court granted a Writ of Certiorari in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, No. 11-1085 (U.S. Jun. 11, 2012) to decide whether, in a misrepresentation case under SEC Rule l0b-5, the court must require proof of materiality before certifying a plaintiff class based on the fraud-on-the-market theory (and whether the court must allow the defendants to present evidence rebutting the applicability of the fraud-on-the-market theory before certifying the class
New Jersey judge sentences lawyer who pled guilty to a record-length twelve years for insider trading - longer than Raj Rajaratnam
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- USA
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- June 5 2012
On Monday, June 4, 2012, New Jersey Federal Judge Katharine Hayden sentenced Matthew Kluger (a former associate at several prominent law firms) to twelve years in prison for his role in a insider trading scheme
FCPA cooperation: Robert Antoine receives a sentence reduction in Haiti Teleco
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- USA
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- June 1 2012
On May 29, 2012, Florida Federal Judge Jose E. Martinez granted a Government Motion to reduce the sentence of Robert Antoine, the former director of international relations for Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. ("Haiti Teleco"), the Haitian state-owned telecommunications company, from 48 months to 18 months, based on his cooperation with the Government's FCPA investigation into the Haiti Teleco matter
The Government moves to dismiss its appeal in the Lindsey Manufacturing FCPA case
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- USA
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- May 29 2012
Back on December 1, 2011, when Judge A. Howard Matz entered an order vacating the convictions and dismissing the Superseding Indictment against Lindsey Manufacturing Company, Keith Lindsey, Steve Lee in the criminal FCPA case, he noted that "Dr. Lindsey and Mr. Lee were put through a severe ordeal."
Haitian foreign official Jean Rene Duperval sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in FCPA scheme
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- Haiti, USA
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- May 22 2012
On Monday, May 21, 2012, Florida Federal Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Jean Rene Duperval, the former director of international relations for Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. ("Haiti Teleco"), the Haitian state-owned telecommunications company, to nine years in prison for his role in a scheme to launder bribes paid to him by two Miami-based telecommunications companies
The SEC v. Citigroup appeal: SEC and Citigroup file their briefs explaining why Judge Rakoff's opinion should be vacated
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- USA
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- May 17 2012
On Monday, May 14, 2012, both the SEC and the Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. filed their appellate briefs in the three consolidated appeals regarding Judge Jed Rakoff's November 28, 2011 Opinion and Order rejecting the SEC's proposed settlement with Citigroup
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