https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/ Excerpted quote: “Huizar sold out his city.”
19. U.S. Department of Justice. “Pittsburgh Building Inspector Pleads Guilty to Bribery.” Press Release, May 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr Excerpted quote: “Whether it’s $200 or $200,000, a bribe is a bribe.”
20. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (UK). Review of the Implementation of the PSC Register, March 2019. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/822823/psc-register-review.pdf BEIS review noting “All Law Enforcement Organisations we spoke to had used the PSC register…”
21. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. “Foreign Extortion Prevention Act Criminalizes Demand-Side Bribery.” January 8, 2024. https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/01/foreign-extortion-prevention-act-criminalizes-demand-side-bribery Overview of FEPA, which targets the “demand side” of foreign bribery.
22. Transparency International. “CPI 2021: Trouble at the Top—U.S. Declines 9 Points Since 2015.” Transparency International, January 2022. https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2021-trouble-at-the-top Context for the U.S. historical slide from the mid-70s to the high-60s.
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1. CPI figures and methodology are from TI’s official pages and report; the Supreme Court ethics code and its non-enforcement are documented by the Court’s PDF and CRS; ProPublica’s line on “luxury trips virtually every year” is verbatim; the CTA/FinCEN changes are drawn from FinCEN’s press release, Federal Register text, and guidance page; the FCPA pause and narrowed restart are covered by Reuters and summarized in a Willkie client alert; municipal case quotes come from DOJ press releases; the UK PSC register line is from BEIS’s post-implementation review; FEPA context is from legal summaries.