The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a federal law that prohibits people in the United States from making corrupt payments to foreign officials for business purposes. Alleged FCPA violations may result in criminal prosecutions. Additionally, civil actions are also possible at…

Texas law treats security fraud crimes seriously. Insider trading is a type of security fraud. If you have inside information on the financial state of a company, then you are an “insider”. If you then make stock decisions based…

Watching prosecution trends is often somewhat like reading tea leaves. After all, it can be virtually impossible to turn overarching statistics into usable information that may be relevant for a specific situation. Still, recent data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse…