Fraud, Bribery, and Whistleblowing: Do Protections Stop at U.S. Borders?

Ms. Sprinzen `96 will speak about trends in enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)’s anti-bribery prohibition and accounting requirements, and the intersection of the FCPA with the whistleblower provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Ms. Sprinzen is Senior Counsel with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. She has prosecuted and defended organizations and individuals in securities and commodities fraud cases, as well as procurement fraud, mortgage fraud, health care fraud, bank fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases. As a prosecutor, she also led criminal investigations in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and in parallel with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.