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In 1977, President Carter signed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) into law to outlaw the bribery of foreign government officials by the private sector. And then … nothing happened. Not for a while, anyway. The government brought cases here and there, but the statute effectively lay dormant for years. After three-and-a-half decades and several expansions, that of course has changed.