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TOO BIG TO JAIL BRANDON GARRETT AND CORPORATE CRIME
WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 16, 2012

Brandon Garrett has pulled together a database of all the deferred and non prosecution agreements and plea agreements since 2001.

And he’s sliced and diced them.

And now he’s writing a book for Harvard University Press about what he’s finding.

The working title?

Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Take On Corporations.

Garrett is a Professor at the University of Virginia Law School.

Garrett wonders, for example, why the Justice Department secures guilty pleas for environmental crimes while getting primarily deferred and non prosecution agreements in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases.

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BAKER & MCKENZIE’S BRIAN WHISLER ON WAL-MART, FCPA AND TENSIONS BETWEEN BUSINESS AND LEGAL
WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 8, 2012

David Barstow’s expose in the New York Times of bribery at Wal-Mart is shaking up the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) world.

Last week, FCPA Compliance and Ethics blogger Tom Fox told us that he thought the Wal-Mart case would stop the big business push for FCPA “reform.”

This week, we interview Brian Whisler.

Whisler is a partner at Baker & McKenzie.

He’s a former federal prosecutor.

And his practice now is primarily Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance and investigations.

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