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  1. December 19, 2019

    The Biggest White Collar Cases Of 2019

    From men on the periphery of a presidential scandal to rich parents bribing their kids' way into college, 2019 was rife with headline-grabbing white collar cases, even while prosecutors suffered defeat in some of their most complicated fraud trials. Here, Law360 looks back at a few of the biggest white collar rulings of 2019.

  2. December 02, 2019

    Hoskins Asks Judge To Toss Bribery, Laundering Convictions

    Former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins has urged a Connecticut federal judge to toss his convictions on bribery and money laundering charges, arguing among other things that prosecutors had failed to prove he acted as an agent of Alstom's U.S. subsidiary.

  3. November 08, 2019

    Ex-Alstom Exec Found Guilty On 11 Counts In Bribery Trial

    A jury found former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins guilty of a scheme to bribe Indonesian officials on Friday, convicting on all but one count in the long-awaited Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial.

  4. November 06, 2019

    Ex-Alstom Exec's Fate Hinges On 'Agency' In Bribery Trial

    At the end of former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins' bribery trial Wednesday, prosecutors and the defense offered competing views of whether he was an "agent" of the company's U.S. subsidiary during an alleged plot to bribe Indonesian officials.

  5. October 29, 2019

    Ex-Alstom Exec's Emails Show Bribery Strategy, Jury Hears

    Federal prosecutors trying a former Alstom executive for bribery brought one of his former colleagues to court Tuesday to unveil a flurry of emails that prosecutors believe reveal the amount of strategy they poured into building a "legal-looking framework" that could bring lucrative projects within the company's grasp.

  6. October 28, 2019

    Ex-Alstom Exec's Bribery Ties Are Plain, DOJ Tells Jury

    The U.S. Department of Justice began a keenly anticipated bribery trial Monday against a former Alstom executive accused of coordinating payoffs to Indonesian officials for a $118 million power project, telling a jury he personally chose at least one "bag man" and deserves conviction under an expansive, but rarely tested, reading of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

  7. October 25, 2019

    Breaking Down The Ex-Alstom Executive Foreign Bribery Trial

    The U.S. Department of Justice will face off Monday against a former executive of French rail giant Alstom over his alleged part in a decade-old bribery scheme in Indonesia, marking a rare chance for the agency's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit to showcase its chops before a jury.

  8. August 19, 2019

    Ex-Alstom Exec Can't Dodge Charges Despite 'Close' Call

    A former Alstom SA executive lost a bid to dismiss foreign bribery charges on Monday over years of delay, although a Connecticut federal judge said the case was a "close" one that illustrates the difficulty of deciding when a case is so old that it violates a defendant's right to a speedy trial.

  9. August 14, 2019

    Ex-Alstom Exec's Bribery Trial Moved To October

    A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday postponed the already long-delayed foreign bribery trial of a former Alstom SA executive to October after the British national argued a recent document dump in mid-July made it impossible to fully prepare for a September trial.

  10. August 07, 2019

    Constitutional 'Dilemma' Looms Over Ex-Alstom Exec's Trial

    A Connecticut federal judge appeared torn on Wednesday between postponing the September bribery trial of a British former executive of French multinational Alstom SA, who has complained that long delays in the case violated his rights, and leaving him little time to review a new deluge of evidence.

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