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A Look At The FCPA’s Facilitation Payments Exception

FCPA Professor – The FCPA’s legislative history teaches that in passing the FCPA, Congress intended to capture only a narrow category of payments and chose not to capture so-called facilitating payments, given the difficult and complex business conditions encountered in many foreign countries.

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