More summer reading for those with an interest in anti-corruption enforcement: The latest thinking on how federal prosecutors can encourage cooperation by rewarding companies for self-reporting transgressions of U.S. anti-bribery laws, courtesy of Baker & McKenzie partners Robert Tarun and Peter Tomczak.
In their proposal for leniency for self-reporting and cooperation by companies that uncover Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, Tarun and Tomczak say the model used by the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division to give a break to cooperators who report antitrust violations should be applied to companies that voluntarily disclose FCPA missteps.
