Trump’s efforts to weaken FCPA bad news for compliance
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Kyle Brasseur2020-02-04T16:10:00
If President Trump gets his way and the FCPA loses its bite, compliance officers would lose a valuable instrument in their fight to keep businesses on the right side of an ever-blurring line between right and wrong.
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