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Sep. 19, 2012

Chief of the DOJ’s Criminal Division Defends the Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements in FCPA Enforcement Actions

  • Joseph Story
    Anti-Corruption Report
In a recent speech, Lanny Breuer, Chief of the DOJ’s Criminal Division (responsible for criminal enforcement of the FCPA) argued that deferred prosecution agreements, increasingly common in his department’s FCPA enforcement actions, have resulted in “far greater accountability for corporate wrongdoing – and a sea change in corporate compliance efforts.”

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