Dial 'P' For Prison: Terra Exec's Record-Setting Sentence

Law360, New York (November 9, 2011, 12:30 PM EST) -- On Oct. 25, 2011, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida sentenced Joel Esquenazi, the former president of Miami-based Terra Telecommunications Corp., to an unprecedented 15 years in prison. In August, Esquenazi and a former executive vice president of Terra, Carlos Rodriguez, were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, substantive FCPA violations and money laundering associated with paying bribes to officials of Telecommunications D'Haiti (Haiti Teleco)....

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