'Should FCPA Enforcers Focus on Bribe-Paying Employees or Their Corporate Employers?'

These days most (though not all) resolutions in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases involve corporate defendants paying fines or other penalties to the government. Usually (again, not always) the government does not bother prosecuting the employees who paid the bribes. (While the government has recently made individual liability in corporate criminal cases more of a point of emphasis — as exemplified by the DOJ’s Yates Memo — the targets in those cases are typically senior executives who orchestrated bribe-paying schemes, not the lower-level executives or employees who actually paid the bribes.) The government also uses various legal tools to encourage lower-level employees blow the whistle on their employers. Lees verder:

• Should FCPA Enforcers Focus on Bribe-Paying Employees or Their Corporate Employers?, GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog