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Amazon Seller Consultant Pleads Guilty to Bribery Scheme to Help Merchants
An unaffiliated Amazon consultant pleaded guilty to handing out more than $100,000 in commercial bribes since 2017. Ephraim “Ed” Rosenberg was charged alongside five others for paying bribes to Amazon employees in India who in return, would provide some Amazon merchants with a heightened advantage for selling goods…
Blew It: Ericsson Has to Pay $206 Million Fine for Violating a Bribery Deal With the Feds
Swedish multinational tech giant Ericsson pled guilty this week to bribery and agreed to pay the Department of Justice $206 million dollars. Federal prosecutors accused Ericsson of engaging in a long-running international corruption scheme that involved bribing government officials, falsifying records, and failing to…
ABB agrees to pay $315M to settle coordinated bribery probe
ABB nears deal to resolve third U.S. bribery case against it – report
Facebook Received Whistleblower Report Alleging Bribery Six Months Ahead of OnlyFans Suit
An anonymous whistleblower tip sent to Facebook last year contains a slew of accusations mirroring many of those found in an ongoing federal lawsuit facing Meta and OnlyFans. The anonymous tip, according to a copy provided to Gizmodo, was submitted more than six months before the lawsuit began.
Adult Performers File Allegedly Leaked Offshore Bank Records in OnlyFans-Meta Bribery Suit
A group of adult entertainers suing Meta say they were leaked new evidence of bribery—bank records that detail wire transfers from OnlyFans executives to offshore accounts for Meta executives.
Oracle Pays $23 Million To SEC To Settle Bribery Charges
“The creation of off-books slush funds inherently gives rise to the risk those funds will be used improperly, which is exactly what happened here at Oracle’s Turkey, UAE, and India subsidiaries,” said Charles Cain, FCPA unit chief at the SEC. “This matter highlights the critical need for effective internal accounting controls throughout the entirety of a company’s operations,” he added. Oracle, without admitting or denying the findings of the SEC’s investigation, has agreed to “cease and desist from committing violations” of the anti-bribery, books and records, and internal accounting controls of the FCPA, said the Commission.
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