A blog post on FCPA Professor suggests that Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions based on foreign charitable donations deter corporations from contributing to humanitarian causes. In many cases, firms decide they cannot take the chance an organization poses a compliance risk, and find the cost of due diligence is not worth the benefit derived from the charitable contribution.
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