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I. Introduction
Today’s modern world enables complex business transactions to occur both within the United States as well as abroad in cross-border activities. Many of these transactions pose significant risks to business operations and the corporation’s profit margin. In addition, a variety of high-risk activities by the corporation can have a negative impact on its reputation. Therefore, corporations today are finding it beneficial to have corporate intelligence and investigation services for their business operations. These services are considered an important safeguard against both civil and criminal liability, can help the corporation manage risk, and will enable it to respond and remediate identified threats as soon as possible.
Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms
Over centuries, human society has achieved remarkable progress. Just an example: only 3-4 centuries ago people went for fun to public executions, as they go now to football matches! Now death sentence is only practiced in very few countries. We have become more humane, more civilized, even more rational, but are we also acting more responsibly and ethically?
Unfortunately, there is no simple, affirmative answer to this question. Namely, we are systematically destroying our planet, and with very few exceptions, corruption is still practiced in many domains of public life. In 2004 Daniel Kaufmann, Global Governance Director of the World Bank Institute, estimated the volume of corruption related to public procurement was about 1 trillion USD, and nowadays it could be double. Till rather recently some economists have even publicly defended this practice as an unavoidable aspect of doing business, while international bribing in
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ King & Spalding today announced that Craig Carpenito, until earlier this month the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, has joined as a partner in the firm s Special Matters and Government Investigations practice group in the New York office.
As the U.S. Attorney, Carpenito oversaw all federal criminal prosecutions and civil matters in New Jersey. Under Carpenito s leadership, the U.S. Attorney s office handled some of the nation s most significant healthcare and life sciences prosecutions, accounting, commodities and financial fraud actions, and other investigations related to trading exchanges, spoofing, cyber crime, telemedicine, and genetic testing, as well as matters involving key federal enforcement statutes, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act, and Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. During his tenure, Carpenito also chaired the Department of Justice s national