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Commentary by Kevin Harnisch

An international commodities trading company pled guilty and paid monetary penalties to resolve DOJ charges for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The company had been charged with bribing then-public officials of an Ecuadorian state-owned oil company to secure business advantages and contracts.

The DOJ announced that a District of Oregon grand jury charged four founders of a decentralized finance cryptocurrency investment platform with wire fraud for having allegedly perpetuated a crypto-related Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised approximately $340 million from investors.