United States v. Harris Corp., John D. Iacobucci, and Ronald I. Schultz (N.D. Cal. 1990)

• Case Name
• United States v. Harris Corp., John D. Iacobucci, and Ronald I. Schultz (N.D. Cal. 1990)

• Date Filed
• 08/31/1990

• Enforcement Agency
• DOJ

• Countries
• Colombia

• Foreign Official
• A member of the Cámara de Representativos, the national legislature of Colombia, who had some influence in the award of government telecommunications contracts.

• Date of Conduct
• 1989

• Nature of Business
• Manufacture of telephone switching systems by Harris Corp. (“Harris”), a Delaware corporation and an issuer, through its Digital Telephone Systems (“Digital Telephone”) division.

• Influence to be Obtained
• Defendant Harris Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a manufacturer of telephone switching systems, defendant John D. Iacobucci, Vice President and General Manager of Harris Corporation's Digital Telephone Systems ("DTS") division, and defendant Ronald L. Schultz, Director of Human Relations and later Director of Administration at DTS, sought to obtain telecommunications contracts from the Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, an instrumentality of the Colombian government. Defendants allegedly conspired to use an intermediary—a consultant, doing business as Polo Associates Corporation, Inc., a Delaware corporation engaged in advising telecommunications companies of ways to obtain business in Latin American countries—to pay a member of the national legislature of Colombia, who had some influence in the award of government telecommunications contracts.

• Enforcement
• Following a hearing concerning the government’s evidence, the trial judge granted a motion for judgment of acquittal.

• Amount of the Value
• $22,845.

• Amount of Business Related to Payment
• Not Stated

• Intermediary
• A consultant, doing business as Polo, a Delaware corporation engaged in advising telecommunications companies of ways to obtain business in Latin American countries, and a local Colombian company owned in part by a foreign official..

• Citizenship of Parent Entity
• United States

• Total Sanction
• $ 0

• Compliance Monitor
• No

• Reporting Requirements
• No

• Case is Pending?
• No

• Total Combined Monetary Sanction
• $ 0

Harris Corp.

• Citation
• United States. v. Harris Corp., No. 90-cr-0456 (N.D. Cal. 1990).

• Date Filed
• 08/31/1990

• Filed Under Seal
• No

• FCPA Statutory Provision
• • Aiding and Abetting: Anti-Bribery
  • Aiding and Abetting: Books-and-Records
  • Anti-Bribery
  • Books-and-Records
  • Conspiracy: Anti-Bribery
  • Conspiracy: Books-and-Records

• Other Statutory Provision
• None

• Disposition
• Acquitted

• Defendant Jurisdictional Basis
• Issuer, Conspiracy, Aiding and Abetting

• Defendant's Citizenship
• United States

• Individual Sanction
• None

Harris Corporation-Iacobucci, John D.

• Date Filed
• 08/31/1990

• Filed Under Seal
• No

• Date Case Was Unsealed
• 08/31/1990
  

• FCPA Statutory Provision
• • Aiding and Abetting

• Other Statutory Provision
• Aiding and abetting anti-bribery, Aiding and abetting books and records, Anti-bribery (Issuer), Books and records (Individual), Books and records (Issuer)

• Disposition
• Charges Dismissed

• Defendant Jurisdictional Basis
• Aiding and Abetting

• Defendant's Citizenship
• United States

• Individual Sanction
• Not stated

Harris Corporation-Schultz, Ronald L.

• Date Filed
• 08/31/1990

• Filed Under Seal
• No

• Date Case Was Unsealed
• 07/06/2017
  

• FCPA Statutory Provision
• • Aiding and Abetting

• Other Statutory Provision
• Aiding and abetting anti-bribery, Aiding and abetting books and records, Books and records (Individual), Books and records (Issuer)

• Disposition
• Charges Dismissed

• Defendant Jurisdictional Basis
• Aiding and Abetting

• Defendant's Citizenship
• United States

• Individual Sanction
• Not stated.