International Trade and Customs

Lindsey Manufacturing Exonerated – What Is The Lesson?

By: Susan Kohn Ross
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (Los Angeles, California, USA)

On December 1, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California Howard Matz vacated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) convictions of Lindsey Manufacturing (“LMC”) and its executives

Keith Lindsey and Steve Lee (collectively, “Lindsey Defendants”), citing numerous instances of misconduct by the prosecutors--prosecutors once so proud of the jury convictions of Lindsey, et al., on May 10 that Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer announced, “Lindsey Manufacturing is the first company to be tried and convicted on FCPA violations, but it will not be the last.”  How far out of bounds did Justice run in pursuing the prized convictions, and what does that mean for other targets of Government investigations? Click here to read entire article.

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