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Subject: UN Bribery Ruling Further Defines The Limits Of McDonnell 
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:24:32 +0000 
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UN Bribery Ruling Further Defines The Limits Of McDonnell 
The Second Circuit closed the door on defendants hoping to invoke the U.S. 
Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases —
a decision showing the ruling does not apply across the spectrum of 
corruption prosecutions as some defense attorneys had hoped. 
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2nd Circ. Says McDonnell Rule Doesn't Apply In FCPA Cases 
The high bar for certain corruption cases the U.S. Supreme Court set in 
McDonnell does not apply to prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt 
Practices Act, the Second Circuit ruled Friday, affirming the conviction of a 
Chinese real estate developer for bribing United Nations officials. 
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Ex-KPMG Accountant Gets 8 Months For Inspection Plan Theft 
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday sentenced a former KPMG accountant 
from Texas, who admitted poaching confidential inspection plans from the 
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and giving them to KPMG, to 
eight months in prison. 
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NYT Wins Toss Of Arpaio's $147M Defamation Suit 
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday threw out a $147.5 million 
defamation suit brought by Joe Arpaio against The New York Times, saying 
the former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County had come "nowhere close" to 
proving a crucial aspect of his case. 
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Epstein Dead In Apparent Suicide, As Feds Investigate 
Federal investigators will examine the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier 
charged with sex trafficking underage girls, after officials said he was found 
dead in his Manhattan federal jail cell on Saturday morning, derailing a 
blockbuster trial a day after a trove of document…
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