When You Do Know What You Don’t (Want to) Know: Frederick Bourke and Conscious Avoidance
The Legislative History of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) makes clear that Congress intended that the so-called "head-in-the-sand" defense—also described as "conscious disregard," "willful blindness" or "deliberate ignorance"—should be covered so that company officials could not take refuge from the Act's prohibitions by their unwarranted obliviousness to any action (or inaction), language or other "signaling device" that should reasonably alert them of the "high probability" of an FCPA violation.
Learn more at the HSE Energy and Resources 2010 event on February 24-26, 2010, in Perth, WA.
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