especially the fcpa. i know now that chinese governments have become more and more aggressive attacking corruption issues, but on the other hand so many people talking about the chinese government attacking anti-corruption. the campaign is to attack another part of chinese government, some government officials with different opinions. it is obvious the government started several years ago. why do you possibly review the corruption information to you? especially under fcpa. how do you evaluate whether you should charge those corporations? do you take a holistic view? do you take some political consideration? >> in corruption cases generally, we often see other countries accusing people of corruption. sometimes the people who live in the united states are accused of corruption in the country where they came from and we have to see whether we get -- for example, there might be a prosecution of that person in the other country and the country may be seeking extradition for that person to be sent back to china

especially the fcpa. i know now that chinese governments have become more and more aggressive attacking corruption issues, but on the other hand so many people talking about the chinese government attacking anti-corruption. the campaign is to attack another part of chinese government, some government officials with different opinions. it is obvious the government started several years ago. why do you possibly review the corruption information to you? especially under fcpa. how do you evaluate whether you should charge those corporations? do you take a holistic view? do you take some political consideration? >> not just in the fcpa, but in corruption cases, generally, we often see other countries accusing people of corruption. sometimes the people who live in the united states are accused of corruption in the country where they came from and we have to see whether we get -- for example, there might be a prosecution of that person in the other country and the country may be seeking extradition for that pers

i have a question for you about restitution in fcpa cases. at the last big conference, a number of countries put forward a resolution in essence asking that the developed countries make available part of the proceeds in fcpa cases, and in particular i believe some of those countries wanted to be able to participate in settlements as they're being negotiated. has that issue come to the fore in the department and what is the department's view on that? thank you. >> so i haven't heard that exact issue in the fcpa context. we see that issue or a variation of that issue in another context where for example when we seized $800 million in swiss bank accounts that belonged to the corrupt uzbeki official. so we see that. that's obviously something the people who were involved in the wrongdoing were associated with the government of uzbekistan. in the kleptocracy context, what the corruption was, the government will claim interest in the funds. we deal with that. we generally fight that. we recognize the entire government is not corrupt and the governm

the fcpa is housed in the fraud section which is our largest section. we have about 140 lawyers in the fraud section. that's a big change. when i was in the criminal division before back in '04, there were about 50. so that's really a dramatic change in the face of the criminal division and the fraud section. the goal of the initiative is to trace and forfeit proceeds of foreign corruption and when it's possible to figure out a way to get that money, the money we can get our hands on, back to help the country, the people of the country where that money was stolen. for example we did a year or so ago a resolution that involved a former soviet republic and we were able to get our hands on a large amount of money and work with the ngo to fund and oversee some youth activity programs in that country. that may sound like a small thing, but rather than the u.s. keeping the money that we seized that was stolen from that country, we got the money back to that country for useful programs and we have an audit mechanism to make sure that the money is going for the

prosecutors or defended individuals and entities charged with criminal conduct including under the fcpa. we have a rich curriculum in the areas of criminal law and procedure here at gw law and we produce many graduates who go on to distinguished careers in government and private practice. one such star graduate is the assistant attorney general leslie caldwell. we are so proud of her and excited to welcome her back to her alma mater this afternoon. and although our other distinguished guests karen popp is not a gw law graduate she has a strong connection to the university. i learned just this week that her father once coached football at george washington university. yes, gw once had a football team. and by all accounts he was a phenomenal coach and, in fact, after coaching at gw and on to coach in the nfl. so in a way you're part of the gw family so welcome back, karen. with that i will hand over the program to our wonderful colleague susan and her associate dean for international law, to formally introduce our guests had to moderate the discussion. thank you again and welcome. >> than

government out and throughout the world and because this practice and we are focused here today on the fcpa because the practice when you are representing corporations really is what i like to refer to as a conference room practice. you don't go to court. you don't have a judge arbitrating arguments that the government may make as opposed to the defense and jurisdiction is often one of those topics. that the government has a different view of its reach then the defense. so it is an area that is dependent on what prosecutors across the table , you may have a very aggressive view on what the evidence is as to whether jurisdiction exists. and i also , you know, it's difficult and leslie alluded to this , companies and we are a global economy today . many companies in this country are global, many companies outside of the us are global and are doing business here. and it is, it can be very unlevel playing field throughout the world for corporations that are attempting to do business and i encourage our government to continue its efforts that i know it's been going on for some time now, to encou

prosecutors or defended individuals and entities charged with criminal conduct including under the fcpa. and we have a rich curriculum in the areas of criminal law and procedure here at gw law. and we produce many graduates who go on to have distinguished careers in government and private practice. and one such star graduate is assistant attorney general for the criminal division leslie caldwell. we're so proud of her and excited to welcome her back to her alma mater this afternoon. although our other distinguish guest is not a gw law graduate, she, too, has a strong connection to the university. i learned just this week that her father once coached football at george washington university. yes, gw once had a football team. and by all accounts, he was a phenomenal coach and, in fact, after coaching at gw went on to coach in the nfl. so in a way you're part of the gw family. welcome back, karen. so with that, i'll hand over the program to my wonderful colleague and our associate dean for international comparative law to formally introduce our guest and to moderate the discussion. thank y