U.S. District Judge Howard Matz in Los Angeles on Dec. 1 threw out the convictions of Lindsey Manufacturing Co. and two of its senior executives on charges that they paid an intermediary to bribe two officials of a Mexican utility in violation of the FCPA. Matz cited numerous instances of prosecutorial misconduct, including an FBI agent’s false statements to the grand jury and false information in affidavits submitted for search and seizure warrants.
The lead prosecutor in that investigation, Nicola Mrazek, a senior trial attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, is spearheading a related FCPA case in Texas headed to trial on Jan. 10. John Joseph O’Shea, a former general manager of a subsidiary of ABB Ltd. in Sugarland, Texas, stands accused of paying a separate intermediary run by the same person to bribe the same two Mexican utility officials identified in the Lindsey case.
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