Epstein Secrets

The FCPA Turns 42 By Mike Koehler Today our favorite statute, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, turns 42. In signing the FCPA into law, President Jimmy Carter stated: EFTA00161668 "I am pleased to sign into law S. 305, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and the Domestic and Foreign Investment Impr

405, of course, did not fall out of the sky onto President Carter's desk forty-two years ago. Rather, S. 305 was th

vernment and admonished prosecutors for using Deutsche Bank's lawyers at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP as government investigators. The Connolly and Platinum cases are still subject to appeal. Considered together, they show courts reacting where cases are more gray than black and white, said

go directly to the White House to try to persuade President Carter to issue a statement expressly denying the Soviet

eer to know some extraordinary prosecutors. I’ve also been privileged to help expose some corrupt prosecutors, policemen and FBI agents. The case of John Connolly was an example of both. In that highly-charged case, which was the subject of the semi-functional, but mostly fact-based, film “The Departed,” I help

Whitey was about to be indicted, Billy’s protégé, John Connolly, tipped the gangster off, allowing him to escape and become a fugitive for __ years. Connolly also tipped off Billy to the details of an investigation that targeted him for extorting a half-million dollar bribe from a Boston builder. But thes

ne Moore, whoever. 7. Replace Ford again with Rockefeller, declare martial law and cancel the election. Alternatively, this could be done by killing Jimmy Carter before the inauguration. Now | realize how naive | was. Granted, Carter is more progressive than | am—after all, politics is the art of finding a ba

on, don’ t you think | would have gotten rid of them? Just the way | did with those microfilms in the Hiss case. Everybody was recommending this—from John Connally to Chuck Colson—but | simply did not have access to the system. | should explain that “Bay of Pigs” was our code word for the assassination of Presi

us received virtually no support from the Republican Party or the Party’s elders. It wasn’t until Reagan had finally defeated George Bush, along with John Connally, Howard Baker, Phil Crane, Bob Dole and John Anderson in the primary race, that there was any attempt to be conciliatory to Ronald Reagan’s president

ination, he clearly exposed all the weaknesses of President Carter, just as Senator Bernie Sanders is exposing Hilar