Legg Mason Inc will pay $34 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to resolve FCPA-related charges.
The SEC administrative order completed the feds' earlier $64 million FCPA enforcement action for alleged bribery of Libyan officials. Legg Mason had already agreed in June to a resolution with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
"Companies must take adequate steps to identify and mitigate the risks of bribery and corruption present in their global business. Those risks are particularly acute when, as here, agents and middlemen are used as part of a company’s efforts to obtain business with government clients.” Charles Cain, Chief of the Enforcement Division’s FCPA Unit. said.
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