Recent headlines about the multinational conglomerate 3M violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) through its bribery of Chinese government officials reveal a "very common practice" against proper compliance protocols in the business world, according to an international anti-corruption expert interviewed by OCCRP.

Federal regulators said Lindsay Lohan, Akon, recording artists Ne-Yo, and Lil Yachty, boxer and internet personality Jake Paul, and pornstar Kendra Lust, agreed to pay more than US$400,000 to settle charges that they failed to disclose payments they received from a diplomat for promoting cryptocurrencies on social media.

Two people linked to the now defunct crypto exchange platform FTX Trading Ltd. pleaded guilty to criminal charges for their role in a multi-year scheme that defrauded investors of billions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Wednesday.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesdaycharged the CEO of a now-defunct crypto exchange platform with orchestrating a scheme to defraud his investors as well as regular customers of billions of dollars.

U.S. socialite diva Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay a US$1.26m fine for advertising EthereumMax on her Instagram page, U.S. authorities said on Monday.

Boeing agreed to pay US$200 million in settlement fees Thursday for misleading investors as to the cause of two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 that led to the loss of all 346 souls on board.

One of the world’s major audit firms admitted its auditors had cheated on exams and agreed to settle the affair with U.S. authorities for US$100 million.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to almost double its cyber and cryptocurrency investigations staff under government pressure to bolster enforcement in the sector.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) uncovered on Monday a multi-year penny stock scheme that generated US$194 million in illicit proceeds, leading to charges against 15 individuals and one corporate consulting firm spanning three continents.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued five individuals for promoting an unregistered cryptocurrency exchange platform and helping it amass more than US$2 billion through a lending program authorities have flagged as a Ponzi scheme.

Boston-based pharmaceutical company Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said it will pay US$21.5 million to settle bribery and other violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former Goldman Sachs executive with attempted bribery of government officials in Ghana.

Investigators with the US Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are probing possible COVID19-related insider trading among several high-profile US politicians, according to a report on Monday fromCNN.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission, in a 200-page memo, outlined measures intended to increase transparency of payments made by US companies to foreign governments that are used to secure contracts in the oil, natural gas, or mining sectors, but some argue that it will not go far enough.