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FCPA·Compliance & Enforcement Brief

Extortion Payments, Opinion Release 22-01 and the FCPA

Tom Fox argues that the DOJ's Opinion Release 22-01 – issued in the case of a ship's captain with a serious medical condition who was detained without due process by a foreign government – was unnecessary, because the situation clearly fell within the FCPA's exception for extortion.

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