The FCPA Files: Chiquita Brands International (2001)
The Urabá region of Colombia is a nearly impenetrable thicket of jungle and rainforest. It constitutes part of the Darian Gap, the only break in the Pan-American Highway and a treacherous passage for north-bound migrants. Remote and politically volatile, the region has served as a haven for left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries alike...
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Jul 82 min read
The FCPA Files: Vitusa Corporation (1994)
Denny Herzberg was still an infant when his parents fled Nazi Germany in 1940. They had managed the difficult task of securing exit visas for themselves, but the Gestapo agent at the ship’s on-ramp wouldn’t let their baby aboard with only a birth certificate.
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May 272 min read
The FCPA Files: F.G. Mason Engineering (1990)
If you grew up anywhere on the eastern seaboard in the early 1980s, chances are you remember the television jingle, set to the tune...
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May 62 min read
The FCPA Files: Young & Rubicam (1989)
If you grew up anywhere on the eastern seaboard in the early 1980s, chances are you remember the television jingle, set to the tune...
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Mar 132 min read
The FCPA Files: Goodyear International Corp. (1989)
The 1970s was a rough decade for American tire manufacturers. Consumer preference was moving away from smooth-riding and flexible...
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Mar 42 min read
The FCPA Files: W.S. Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. (1985)
It took almost a decade for the dust to settle from three and a half years of Biafran civil war, but by 1979 Nigeria had managed to pull...
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Feb 112 min read