Anthony Lewis, Co-Head of S&C’s National Security Practice and Cybersecurity Practice, and Aisling O’Shea, Co-Head of the Firm’s FCPA and Anti-Corruption Group, examined early and recent examples of national security issues in anti-corruption and FCPA enforcement efforts in an article for the American University National Security Law Brief. The authors outline the FCPA enforcement landscape, the DOJ’s continuing efforts to focus on cases tied to U.S. national security interests, and shifts in the government’s view on the overlap between national security and corruption.
“Although the current administration intends to rein in FCPA enforcement overall in the short term, the DOJ has signaled it will continue to prioritize FCPA enforcement touching on U.S. national security interests, and the intricacies of criminal and civil prosecutions involving national security concerns or classified intelligence will continue to raise challenging issues for courts, enforcement agencies, and individual defendants,” the authors write.
Read: “National Security Issues Arising In Anticorruption Enforcement”