Media Mentions
2010
Stephen Ryan was interviewed on February 10 by Federal News Radio concerning the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “The United States has been the leading country in the world to criminalize the conduct of its own companies,” he noted, calling some of the penalties imposed by the Department of Justice “eye-catching” and “astonishing.” Mr. Ryan said that FCPA matters encompass both “serious lapses” in corporate conduct and “overzealousness and abuse” in some government prosecutions. He added: “Usually in the United States we indict corrupt government officials and use corporations as witnesses against them. In FCPA matters the foreign officials are corrupt but we can’t reach them with our laws, so we indict the companies as the bad guys.”
Stephen M. Ryan, Government Strategies, International Government Relations
