The Man from FCPA has seen his fair share of bizarre comings and goings in the FCPA and greater anti-corruption enforcement world. Indeed in the wider world of corruption convergence, there is a demonstrable congruity of compliance interests.
Yet even with this keen insight, sometimes situations and events arise which are so out of the ordinary, as to fairly labeled extra-ordinary. Although it came from the world of export control, it certainly has teaching moments for the anti-corruption compliance practitioner. It was the report in the Wall Street Journal that a Hellfire missile, currently one of the most sophisticated and technologically advances weapons in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal—and the weapon of choice for the Predator drone—was somehow accidently shipped from a NATO training site in Spain to Cuba.
