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ghtened standard of proving that a bribe was paid in exchange for an "official act" in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases. The decision in U.S. v. Ng Lap Seng is a clear win for the Justice Department and marks the first time that a circuit court has applied the official act rule, which the U.S. Supreme Co
duct. The drug-addicted celebrity scion told a court eight years ago that he got his former lawyer, Jennifer Ridha, to smuggle him Xanax in her bra. Ridha insisted in a tell-all that she kept the pills in her pants pockets. In the 1990s meanwhile an MCC security lapse nearly cost the government its ke
ghtened standard of proving that a bribe was paid in exchange for an "official act" in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases. The decision in U.S. v. Ng Lap Seng is a clear win for the Justice Department and marks the first time that a circuit court has applied the official act rule, which the U.S. Supreme Co
duct. The drug-addicted celebrity scion told a court eight years ago that he got his former lawyer, Jennifer Ridha, to smuggle him Xanax in her bra. Ridha insisted in a tell-all that she kept the pills in her pants pockets. In the 1990s meanwhile an MCC security lapse nearly cost the government its ke
ghtened standard of proving that a bribe was paid in exchange for an "official act" in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases. The decision in U.S. v. Ng Lap Seng is a clear win for the Justice Department and marks the first time that a circuit court has applied the official act rule, which the U.S. Supreme Co
duct. The drug-addicted celebrity scion told a court eight years ago that he got his former lawyer, Jennifer Ridha, to smuggle him Xanax in her bra. Ridha insisted in a tell-all that she kept the pills in her pants pockets. 36 EFTA00094423 SDNY News Clips, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 In the 1990s m
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