FCPA Insight: Is Another Record Year In Store For Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement?

Mondaq Business BriefingNbr. 2008, March 2008

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FCPA Insight: Is Another Record Year In Store For Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement?

Orignally published April 2008

Picking up where they left off last year, when they combined to file a record number of cases, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or the "Commission") and the Department of Justice ("Justice Department") have combined to file three new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") actions in the first three months of 2008. If the Commission and the Justice Department keep up this pace, another record year is in store for FCPA enforcement.

SEC and DOJ Sue Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation In the first FCPA case of 2008, on February 14, 2008, the government charged Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation ("Wabtec"), a Delaware corporation, headquartered in Pennsylvania, with violating the FCPA in connection with certain improper payments that Wa...

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