Africa Sting – The Charges
Set forth below is a summary of the 16 indictments announced yesterday charging 22 individuals in connection with the “Africa Sting.” The Africa Sting case charges individuals across a wide business...
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This post details developments as to FCPA or related litigation previously reported. Haiti Teleco Case Previous posts (here and here) detailed Joe Esquenazi’s and Carlos Rodriguez’s motion for...
View ArticleSecond Africa Sting Trial Begins
The first Africa Sting trial (as to defendants Andrew Bigelow, Pankesh Patel, John Benson Weir, and Lee Allen Tolleson) ended in July with dismissal of certain charges and Judge Richard Leon declaring...
View ArticleAfrica Sting Development –“Mr. Giordanella, You Are Excused … You Are Free To...
In the first Africa Sting trial this past summer, Judge Richard Leon granted defendant Pankesh Patel’s Rule 29 acquittal motion at the end of the DOJ’s case as to a substantive FCPA charge. (See here...
View ArticleAfrica Sting – Caldwell and Godsey Not Guilty – Jury Still Out As To Other...
On January 19, 2010, the DOJ announced (here) a new type of FCPA enforcement action. While not the first use of undercover techniques in an FCPA enforcement action (see here), the new type of case was...
View ArticleJudge Leon Declares Mistrial As To Remaining Africa Sting Defendants
Yesterday’s post (here) covered the not guilty verdicts of Patrick Caldwell and Jonathan Godsey in the second Africa Sting trial. The post noted that the jury had yet to reach a verdict as to John...
View ArticleWriter’s Cramp At The DOJ?
This is the second time I have written about this issue (see here for the first). This time, the examples are more numerous and more significant. The DOJ has stated (here) that its FCPA website (here)...
View ArticleGame Over – DOJ Moves To Dismiss Africa Sting Cases
In a filing this morning (see here), the DOJ has moved “to dismiss with prejudice the Superseding Indictment, and all underlying indictments, against the remaining defendants who are pending trial.”...
View ArticleFrom the Dockets
This post details developments as to FCPA or related litigation previously reported. Haiti Teleco Case Previous posts (here and here) detailed Joe Esquenazi’s and Carlos Rodriguez’s motion for...
View ArticleSecond Africa Sting Trial Begins
The first Africa Sting trial (as to defendants Andrew Bigelow, Pankesh Patel, John Benson Weir, and Lee Allen Tolleson) ended in July with dismissal of certain charges and Judge Richard Leon declaring...
View ArticleAfrica Sting Development –“Mr. Giordanella, You Are Excused … You Are Free To...
In the first Africa Sting trial this past summer, Judge Richard Leon granted defendant Pankesh Patel’s Rule 29 acquittal motion at the end of the DOJ’s case as to a substantive FCPA charge. (See here...
View ArticleAfrica Sting – Caldwell and Godsey Not Guilty – Jury Still Out As To Other...
On January 19, 2010, the DOJ announced (here) a new type of FCPA enforcement action. While not the first use of undercover techniques in an FCPA enforcement action (see here), the new type of case was...
View ArticleJudge Leon Declares Mistrial As To Remaining Africa Sting Defendants
Yesterday’s post (here) covered the not guilty verdicts of Patrick Caldwell and Jonathan Godsey in the second Africa Sting trial. The post noted that the jury had yet to reach a verdict as to John...
View ArticleWriter’s Cramp At The DOJ?
This is the second time I have written about this issue (see here for the first). This time, the examples are more numerous and more significant. The DOJ has stated (here) that its FCPA website (here)...
View ArticleGame Over – DOJ Moves To Dismiss Africa Sting Cases
In a filing this morning (see here), the DOJ has moved “to dismiss with prejudice the Superseding Indictment, and all underlying indictments, against the remaining defendants who are pending trial.”...
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