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  1. January 13, 2021

    2nd Circ. Urged To Vacate Ex-Alstom Exec's FCPA Acquittal

    Federal prosecutors urged the Second Circuit on Tuesday to vacate a lower court's reversal of former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins' bribery convictions, arguing there was "more than sufficient evidence" that the British citizen was indeed an agent of the company.

  2. September 21, 2020

    Ex-Alstom Exec Can't Skirt Prison Over Virus Risk, Feds Say

    U.S. prosecutors on Friday urged a judge to reject a bid by former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins to serve a 15-month money laundering sentence in home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic, arguing the British citizen shouldn't be allowed to "sail back to England never having served a day in prison."

  3. September 08, 2020

    Ex-Alstom Exec Seeks Early Release Over COVID-19 Concerns

    Former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins asked a Connecticut federal judge to keep him out of prison after months in pandemic-induced limbo awaiting the start of his 15-month sentence.

  4. July 14, 2020

    2nd Circ. Urged To Restore Alstom Exec's Bribery Conviction

    Federal prosecutors asked the Second Circuit on Monday to reverse a trial judge's ruling clearing former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins of bribery, saying the judge was wrong to override the jury's guilty verdict.

  5. March 09, 2020

    Feds To Appeal Ex-Alstom Exec's Bribery Acquittal Ruling

    Federal prosecutors Monday filed a notice to appeal a Connecticut federal judge's decision to overturn the foreign bribery convictions of former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins, who was accused of bribing Indonesian officials to gain a $118 million energy contract.

  6. March 06, 2020

    Ex-Alstom Exec Gets Over 1 Year For Laundering Bribes

    Former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins was sentenced to one year and three months in prison on money laundering charges Friday after a Connecticut federal judge decided not to factor in foreign bribery charges on which she acquitted him.

  7. March 03, 2020

    Feds Want Convicted Ex-Alstom Exec To Get Up To 9 Years

    Federal prosecutors told a Connecticut federal court Monday that former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins should serve between seven and nine years in prison for his role in a $118 million bribery and money laundering scheme, arguing that his recent acquittal on bribery charges shouldn't lower his sentence.

  8. February 27, 2020

    Ex-Alstom Exec's Acquittal May Escalate Future FCPA Battles

    A Connecticut federal judge's decision clearing former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins of bribery may spur prosecutors to shift tactics in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases and increase defendants' resolve to challenge the government's theories, attorneys say.

  9. February 26, 2020

    Judge Throws Out Ex-Alstom Exec's Bribery Convictions

    A Connecticut federal judge overturned a former Alstom SA executive's foreign bribery convictions Wednesday after finding prosecutors failed to prove the defendant was an agent of the company's U.S. subsidiary, but the court upheld his money-laundering convictions.

  10. January 08, 2020

    Feds Say Trial Evidence Backs Hoskins' FCPA Conviction

    Federal prosecutors have urged a Connecticut federal judge not to overturn the conviction of former Alstom SA executive Lawrence Hoskins, saying a jury was given ample evidence that he was an "agent" of Alstom's U.S. industrial-boiler unit as it hired bribe-paying consultants to secure a power project in Indonesia.

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