Criminalizing the “Quo”: the New Foreign Extortion Prevention Act Targets the Demand Side of Bribery

K&L Gates – Buried hundreds of pages into the NDAA is the new Foreign Extortion Prevention Act, a milestone law that makes it a crime for foreign officials to demand or accept bribes from issuers, domestic concerns, or otherwise from anyone while in the United States, in exchange for the performance of an official act to confer a business advantage.