Bribery

Washington, D.C., May 14, 2008 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a settled enforcement action charging Willbros Group, Inc. and four former employees with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), alleging that they paid more than $6 million in undisclosed bribes to Nigerian government officials and others to obtain significant contracts for the Houston-based company.    » read more »

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008 -- WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice has entered into an agreement with Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) regarding improper payments to government officials in India in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. The agreement requires that Wabtec pay a $300,000 penalty, implement rigorous internal controls, and cooperate fully with the Department.    » read more »

06 December 2007 -- A new survey reports that more than 20 percent of people polled in Latin America say they paid a bribe in the past year to obtain a service, down slightly from the previous year.

The survey, known as the Global Corruption Barometer, was released Thursday by the Berlin-based anti-corruption group Transparency International.

According to the poll, most bribes in Latin America were paid to the police more than 20 percent and to the judiciary about 11 percent.    » read more »

Nov. 20, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – A civilian contractor from Georgia has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for allegedly soliciting bribes while working at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.

The indictment returned this morning charges Terry Hall, 41, of Rex, Georgia, with one count of bribery.    » read more »

August 16, 2007 -- BOSTON – Yesterday, a Billerica, Massachusetts man was sentenced in connection with bribing Registry of Motor Vehicle (RMV) clerks in exchange for false Massachusetts driver's licenses. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel sentenced Michelet Joacine, age 38, to serve 19 to 20 years in State Prison and ordered him to pay a $10,000 fine. Joacine was convicted at trial in May but fled shortly before the jury returned its guilty verdict. He was arrested in June by State Police assigned to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office and sentenced yesterday.    » read more »

August 15, 2007 -- TRENTON – New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced today that a Hillside police officer was indicted by a state grand jury for allegedly conspiring with his former girlfriend to steal funds from the Homelessness Prevention Program administered by the state Department of Community Affairs.    » read more »

May 11, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – A former corrections officer and a former Arizona Army National Guardsmen were sentenced this week for their roles in a widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. The defendants were sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Tucson Division, by the Honorable Cynthia K. Jorgenson.    » read more »