Epstein Secrets

the Justice Department and marks the first time that a circuit court has applied the official act rule, which the U.S. Supreme Court established in McDonnell v. U.S., to the FCPA. "People on the defense side of FCPA cases have long felt that the agencies have taken a tremendously extensive view of their

more expansive definition of bribery. "The way I read McDonnell, it wouldn't apply on its face to the FCPA," said Jason Jones, a partner in King & Spalding's special matters and government investigations practice in Washington, D.C. "The Second Circuit seems to me to have gotten it right." Jones noted

the Justice Department and marks the first time that a circuit court has applied the official act rule, which the U.S. Supreme Court established in McDonnell v. U.S., to the FCPA. "People on the defense side of FCPA cases have long felt that the agencies have taken a tremendously extensive view of their

more expansive definition of bribery. "The way I read McDonnell, it wouldn't apply on its face to the FCPA," said Jason Jones, a partner in King & Spalding's special matters and government investigations practice in Washington, D.C. "The Second Circuit seems to me to have gotten it right." Jones noted

the Justice Department and marks the first time that a circuit court has applied the official act rule, which the U.S. Supreme Court established in McDonnell v. U.S., to the FCPA. "People on the defense side of FCPA cases have long felt that the agencies have taken a tremendously extensive view of their

more expansive definition of bribery. "The way I read McDonnell, it wouldn't apply on its face to the FCPA," said Jason Jones, a partner in King & Spalding's special matters and government investigations practice in Washington, D.C. "The Second Circuit seems to me to have gotten it right." Jones noted