For those in the FCPA world I would like to focus on one aspect of the court’s ruling: consistency in discipline. In Brady’s appeal, the court was highly critical of the fact that the NFL policy for discipline for first offenses involving equipment violations would result in fines rather than suspensions. Further in all previous discipline involving “equipment violations results in a fine of $5,512.” The NFL suspended Brady for four games with an attendant loss of salary at approximately $1 million.
