A blizzard of corruption has 2016 off to a roaring FCPA start
There has been enough foreign corruption turmoil in the first few months of 2016 that one almost doesn’t want to see what the rest of the year has in store. It’s the kind of year where, already, the Petrobras and Dieselgate scandals seem like a century ago. Tom Fox reports.
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