United States v. Joel Esquenazi

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting 27 vagueness challenge to FCPA definition of “foreign official” to include any “instrumentality” of foreign government
• rejecting vagueness challenge to FCPA definition of \foreign official\ to include any \instrumentality\ of foreign government
• “Funneling money through shell corporations [in violation of money laundering statute] was not necessary for [Defendant] to bribe a foreign official. It just made it less likely that conduct would be uncovered.”
• “Conducting a criminal enterprise necessarily requires paying its essential expenses—doing so 3 The Second Circuit has suggested agreement in dicta with the Fifth Circuit’s approach. See United States v. Quinones, 635 F.3d 590, 599 (2d Cir. 2011
• “An ‘offer’ or a ‘promise to pay’ a foreign official for a business benefit is just as unlawful as an actual ‘payment’ under [the FCPA].”
• “[W]here the government does not have evidence in its possession, the prosecution cannot have suppressed it, either willfully or inadvertently.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).