In the summer of 2022, I was very proud to learn that the Government of France had named me to the Legion of Honor, its highest civilian award. This was particularly meaningful to me because in 2002 I had been awarded France’s other national honor, the National Order of Merit. The earlier award was for work I had done counseling France on issues remaining from the theft
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Discussion of Criminal Investigations of Donald Trump
Like everyone else, I have been fascinated by the range of potential – and now, actual – criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, and I have been regularly asked to speak about them, in French and English, on European television. You will see here an on-air interview, in English, done on the wonderful France24 network in June 2023 shortly after Trump’s (first) federal indictment. It ran
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Republication in Germany and France of My Article on Deferred Prosecution Agreements
In the Publications page, and here, you will see an ambitious article I wrote in 2022 that was published by the wonderful Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. If offers a review of corporate deferred prosecution agreements in the country where the procedure was invented (the United States) and in several other countries, including the United Kingdom and France, that have adopted them. The article focuses on the
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Columbia Law School Webinar: French language discussion of US/France relations on criminal enforcement [Video]
On January 27, 2021, I joined noted French writer Antoine Garapon in a one-hour “webinar” covering current developments and trends in cross-border cooperation between France and the United States on criminal matters. The discussion was basically optimistic: unlike outcomes in 2014 involving the bank BNPParibas and French industrial icon Alstom — which resulted in French companies agreeing to huge criminal penalties without any participation by French authorities
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Columbia Law School colloquy on transnational law enforcement [Video]
On November 12, 2020, I moderated a (virtual) discussion about current developments in cross-border law enforcement that I think was lively and interesting. You will see a video recording of it (a bit under one hour). Watch Video The two principal participants were Zainab Ahmad, now a partner at Gibson Dunn and for many years a leading prosecutor with the Department of Justice, including a stint with
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