Law360, New York (August 4, 2014, 10:28 AM EDT) -- On July 24, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Bernd Kowalewski, the former president and chief executive officer of BizJet International Sales and Support Inc., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and one substantive count of violating the FCPA. Unlike his co-conspirators, who received significant reductions to their sentences for cooperating with the government's investigation, and BizJet, which similarly received the benefit of a deferred prosecution agreement for voluntarily disclosing to and cooperating with the government, Kowalewski became a wanted man after being indicted under seal in 2012. He was arrested on a provisional arrest warrant in Amsterdam on March 13, 2014, and waived extradition to the U.S. this past June. A fourth defendant in the case, Jald Jensen, remains at large....
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