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Senate Adopts Wall Street Reform Including Provision to Increase Transparency and Attack Corruption
Justices Uphold Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Financial Reform Bill Includes Revenue Transparency Requirements
TI-USA Comments on the Supreme Court's "Honest Services" Ruling
House Passes Election Finance Bill Mandating Disclosure
TI Launches Expanded Toolkit on Dealing with Extortion & Solicitation
TI-USA Comments on ADB Public Communications Policy
TI-USA Objects to UNESCO Obiang Prize
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES COMBATING CORRUPTION “TOP PRIORITY ”
Attorney General launches Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative to combat large-scale foreign official corruption and recover public funds for use of the people. Team of prosecutors will focus exclusively on deterrence, holding offenders to account and protecting public resources.
- Attorney General Holder Speaks at the African Union Summit
- TI-USA Welcomes Initiative and Calls for Action
Photo: U.S. Embassy in Kampala, Uganda
TI-USA CALLS FOR “DEMAND SIDE” ACTION
At a July 28th USG briefing for Justice, SEC and FBI officials, TI-USA called for enhanced USG action to deny visas to and to promote host country prosecution of public officials named in FCPA cases.
UN Tribunal Awards Compensation to Long-Suffering UNDP Whistleblower
Yesterday, United Nations Dispute Tribunal Judge Memooda Ebrahim-Carstens issued a judgment in the long pending case of Artjon Shkurtaj, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) whistleblower who made much publicized disclosures regarding UNDP wrongdoing at its North Korean office. The judge ordered Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to award Shkurtaj fourteen months’ net base salary as compensation for the failure of the ad hoc External Independent Investigative Review Panel (EIIRP) – appointed by UNDP to investigate the case – to allow Shkurtaj to comment on adverse findings contained in its publicly released report.
US Border Officer Gets 20 Years for Corruption, Smuggling Drugs
A former U.S. Customs employee is headed to federal prison for 20 years after being convicted of corruption and smuggling charges in El Paso, Texas. Martha Alicia Garnica, 43, a former Customs and Border Protection officer, conspired to smuggle marijuana and undocumented migrants into the United States and bribed or attempted to bribe fellow officers, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said in a statement.
