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vereign debt were defrauded by not EFTA00161663 being told that Credit Suisse and Russian bank VTB won the country's loan business through bribes. Boustani, an executive at shipping services firm Privinvest, took the stand and admitted to bribery but denied defrauding investors. In October, a Brooklyn
lf." Perhaps the most highly anticipated FCPA trial was that of former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins. After years of litigation over whether Hoskins could be an "agent" of one of the parent company's subsidiaries, a jury ultimately decided that he was one when hiring consultants to bribe Indonesi
, Lebanese salesman Jean Boustani faces allegations that he bribed Mozambican officials to obtain business for shipbuilder Privinvest. While some of Boustani's co-defendants are charged with FCPA violations, he himself is not. He suggested in a recent motion to dismiss that such charges wouldn't have stuc
a person with conspiring to violate the FCPA if the individual couldn't be charged with violating the law itself. The effect is that prosecutors at Hoskins' trial will have to prove that the Alstom executive was an "agent" of the company's subsidiary. The trial itself will test what that term means in
, Lebanese salesman Jean Boustani faces allegations that he bribed Mozambican officials to obtain business for shipbuilder Privinvest. While some of Boustani's co-defendants are charged with FCPA violations, he himself is not. He suggested in a recent motion to dismiss that such charges wouldn't have stuc
a person with conspiring to violate the FCPA if the individual couldn't be charged with violating the law itself. The effect is that prosecutors at Hoskins' trial will have to prove that the Alstom executive was an "agent" of the company's subsidiary. The trial itself will test what that term means in
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Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
United States
LOCATIONthe Southern District
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Ghislaine Maxwell
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Michael Cohen
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Southern District of New York
ORGANIZATIONSecond Circuit
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Department of Justice
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Geoffrey S. Berman
PERSONFederal Bureau of Prisons
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Stephen Hawking
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Julie K. Brown
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U.S. Virgin Islands
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New York State
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New York
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Colorado
LOCATIONHenry Pitman
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Denver
LOCATIONthe Metropolitan Detention Center
ORGANIZATION
Metropolitan Correctional Center
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