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Recovering from a relatively slow start to the year, due in no small part to the global pandemic, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Units of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) closed the year with a bang. With 32 combined FCPA enforcement actions, 51 total cases including ancillary enforcement, and a record-setting $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties (plus billions more collected by foreign regulators), 2020 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement. This client update provides an overvie...

Using new DNA barcoding technology, a pair of shark researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology ( HIMB) have determined a tiger shark caused fatal injuries to a 56-year-old Lahaina man, who was bitten at Maui’s Honolua Bay on December 8. By measuring bite marks on the surfer’s board, they have also determined the shark was approximately 14.3-feet-long. HIMB’s Associate Researcher Carl Meyer, a renowned shark expert said, “Prior to the development of these new techniques, uncertainty over the size and species of sharks responsible for ...

DNA tech identifies shark that killed Maui surfer (and how big it was) DNA tech identifies shark that killed Maui surfer (and how big it was) By Mark Carpenter | December 18, 2020 at 6:14 PM HST - Updated December 18 at 6:14 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - 10 days ago, surfer Robin Warren was bitten by a shark in Honolua Bay. The 56-year-old died of his injuries the next day. “I feel like when you lose somebody like that, you generally want to know as much information about the situation as you can,” Derek Kraft, of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. “So, this ...

cuechi@mauinews.com Researchers were able to swab mucus left by a shark on a surfer’s board, sequence the DNA and match it to a tiger shark. — DLNR photo Swabbing for cells left in the 17-inch bite marks on a surfboard, researchers tapped into new DNA technology to determine that a 14-foot tiger shark was behind the fatal attack on 56-year-old Napili man in Honolua Bay this month. Lead researcher and renowned shark expert Carl Meyer said that in the past, scientists have had to rely on observations by the victims or bystanders to help identify the shark in an attack. In Hawaii, the speci...