Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials

Source: cnbc

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.

The pause will be implemented to avoid putting U.S. businesses at an economic disadvantage to foreign competitors.

Trump reportedly will tell Attorney General Pam Bondi to prepare new guidelines for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement.



Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

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CORRUPION FROM TRUMP'S FIRST TERM

**John Adams quote State Dining Room White House includes: "May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof."**

1. Numerous Trump associates have pleaded guilty to federal charges

2. HHS Secretary Tom Price brought down by his habit of using private jets and military planes for travel

3. EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigned over a raft of shameless ethical offenses

4. **Trump’s first staff secretary Rob Porter beat the shit out of 2 wives**

5. His first nominee for labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, withdrew after revelations of beating the shit out of one wife

5. Paul Manafort indicted - laundering millions of dollars in income, evading taxes - serving jail time.

6. Gates, Manafort’s trusted aide and Trump’s deputy campaign chairman, testified he helped Manafort commit those crimes.

7. Trump University students scammed, he agreed to pay $25 million to settle

8. His lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130K not to share her story of boinking Trump months after the birth of his 5th child from his 3rd wife

9. Cohen jailed for an array of crimes

10. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross business associates accuse him of stealing over $120 million. If even half of the accusations are legit, He could rank among the biggest grifters in American history

11. Trump Foundation, accused of “sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the Trump campaign,”

12. His son killed an endangered animal then sought permission after the fact

13. Ivanka Trump’s ex-business partner ensnared in federal fraud probe

14. Melania Trump created a fake resume claiming to have graduated from college

15. Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Investigation by the Feds

16. Trump advisor Gorka wears Nazi pin to White House

17. Trump nominee Monica Crowley accused of plagiarizing 50 passages of her book

18. Trump’s Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch allegations of plagiarizing parts of his book

19. Trump nominee Kavanaugh accused of attempted rape and mysterious donations

20. Melania Trump’s 2016 Republican National Convention speech mirrors former first lady Michelle Obama

21. **Trump adviser George Nader pleads guilty to child porn, transporting 14-year old boy for criminal sexual activity**

22. **NOT NADER--DIFFERENT GUY--Trump's Former Oklahoma Campaign Chair Will Plead Guilty to Child Sex Trafficking**

23. **THIS IS A DIFFERENT GUY THAN THE PREVIOUS 2--former judge and Campbell County, Kentucky, Trump campaign chairman, arrested for child sex crimes**

24. Gerald Delamus, “Veterans for Trump” co-chair New Hampshire, Sentenced to 7 years in prison for role in Cliven Bundy’s 2014 armed standoff

25. Trump administration seeks to conceal Secret Service spending on his travel until after election

26. Trump inauguration donor pleads guilty to obstruction of investigation into sources of contribution

27. Giuliani, paid by Iranian terrorist group MEK, pushes belligerent Trump policy on Iran

28. Lobbyist with close ties to Trump raided by FBI in fraud probe

29. Erik Prince, Trump ally and brother of Secretary DeVos, may have broken Venezuela sanctions

30. Trump administration fights imposition of new sanctions on Russia

31. Trump pays $2 million to charities as part of settlement over bogus foundation

32. 3 women accuse Trump Appointee Gordon Sondland of sexual misconduct, experienced retaliation for speaking up

33. Trump reported higher figures to lenders, lower figures to tax authorities

34. Trump’s new press secretary has 2 DUI arrests, was fired for plagiarism and cheating on expenses

35. Trump’s top border official broke FBI rules to fund happy hours

36. RNC spent $94,800 on a mass order of Don Jr.’s book

37. Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg under investigation by Manhattan D.A.

38. Nikki Haley used insecure email system to send “confidential” information as U.N. ambassador

39. Pay-for-play scheme between the RNC and Trump nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas; asked to give $500,000 while nomination hung in air

40. Trump associate Roger Stone guilty of witness tampering, obstruction, lying to Congress in effort to protect Trump

41. Trump considered firing inspector general of intelligence community for doing their job and passing along whistleblower complaint

42. Senior Trump official at State embellished resume, even created a fake TIME cover

43. EPA chief of staff under investigation for document destruction

44. Prosecutor in Stone trial demonstrates Trump lied to Mueller on WikiLeaks

45. Lawsuit: Trump’s phone records substantiate claims by Summer Zervos that he sexually harassed her

46. Trump switches residence from New York to Florida to avoid N.Y. authorities from prying--florida has a Republican governor

47. White House blocked State Department statement on Russian attack on Ukrainian military vessels

48. Top Trump aide used position to quash VA whistleblowers, retaliate against others

49. New Jersey seeks to revoke liquor license for Trump golf club after over-served man caused fatal wreck

50. Trump campaign stiffs Albuquerque for $211,000 costs for rally

51. Trump considers federal government shutdown to obstruct impeachment inquiry

52. Kushner company sued by Maryland attorney general for hundreds of thousands of violations while renting “rat-infested properties”

53. **THE KICKBACK-Firm donated $500,000 to pro-Trump super PAC day after awarded defense contract**

54. Trump pushes out postmaster general for not doubling rates on Amazon for package delivery

55. 281 lobbyists work or worked for Trump administration

56. National Enquirer shredded documents related to Trump after reporters started calling about payoff for mistresses

57. CIA’s top lawyer made criminal referral to DOJ, which did not open an investigation

58. Trump pushed China’s Xi to investigate Biden in June call stashed in code word clearance server

59. Trade associations, foreign government book Trump hotel rooms that never get used

60. Pentagon spent $184,000 at Trump’s Turnberry resort

61. **SHARPIE GATE-- Commerce Secretary Ross threatened mass firings if NOAA scientists contradicted Trump on Hurricane Dorian**''

62. Air Force paying Trump for use of Scottish resort, keeping it afloat financially

63. Trump on track to spend $340 million in taxpayer money at his own properties in just 3 years

64. White House admits Trump lied to manipulate the markets

65. Trump operatives register as foreign agents for Libyan wealth fund

66. Defense Department reexamines $10 billion contract with Amazon after Trump criticism of Post coverage

67. **Pence fails to pay $24,000 security bill for event at gay-owned club**

68. Trump lawyer paid $250,000 for HUSH MONEY $1.6 million deal for ex-Playboy model- she was impregnated by RNC official

69. **Trump, his company & 3 of his spawn face class-action lawsuit --People scammed into spending money on fraudulent, multilevel marketing scheme**

70. Chinese billionaire, Mar-a-Lago member, accused of being a communist spy

71. Interior Secretary met with attorney same day she told a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official to back off Trump donor development

72. Businessman donates $750,000 in fireworks for Trump event, lobbied and received reprieve from Chinese tariffs

73. Heather Nauert, former State Department spokesperson, was paid by FOX News while in government

74. Whistleblower: Pompeo abused security detail to pick up Chinese food, dog

75. Kushner failed to disclose numerous meetings with foreign leaders to State Department

76. **Chilean billionaire rented home to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump then got permission for mine**

77. Trump owes D.C. $7 million in 2017 inauguration costs

78. Kushner part-owned company received $90 million from anonymous offshore investors

79. State Department funds trolls targeting journalists, human rights activists

80. Trump’s former business partner says Trumps evaded taxes in Panama

81. Sprint executive with Trump at his golf course while Sprint awaits government approval for a merger

82. Bank chairman indicted for arranging $16 million in loans to Manafort in exchange for nomination as Army Secretary

83. **Kushners get $800 million federally-backed apartment loan**

84. Deutsche Bank staff saw suspicious activity within Trump, Kushner businesses

85. **Trump borrowed millions then named Florida bank’s CEO to board of directors of Miami branch of Atlanta Fed**

86. Trump pardons mail fraud guy who wrote glowing book about him

87. Barr lied to Congress about conversations with Mueller

88. Taxpayers covered a $1,000 liquor bill for Trump staffers, others at Trump property

89. Former Models for Trump Agency Say They Violated Immigration Rules -Worked Illegally

90. Pipeline of Undocumented Workers from costa Rica for Trump Golf Course Was ‘Open Secret’

91. **Russian spy Maria Butina helped choose US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson**

92. White House overruled 25 security clearance denials

93. Trump re-election campaign shifted $1.3 million in donor money to businesses

94. Founder of massage parlor involved in prostitution sting attended Super Bowl party with Trump

95. Trump’s Virginia golf course cited for illegally cutting down trees from protected area

96. Trump Org insurance broker subpoenaed

98. Zinke, Interior Secretary, resigns amid seventeen investigations

99. Trump’s labor secretary, broke law as prosecutor in Jeffrey Epstein pedophilia case

100. Barr’s daughter joins Treasury-- son-in-law heads to White House

101. **Trump's Acting AG Matt Whitaker ran a “scam” patent company**

102. **Podiatrist provided Trump with bone spur diagnosis to avoid draft as favor to father**

102. Taxpayers cover $54,000 in tents for Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party

103. Trump 2020 campaign used shell company to pay ad buyers at center of illegal scheme with NRA

104. VA secretary lied to Congress about pro-Confederate speeches