What is the difference between a bribe and a facilitation fee? Does it make a difference if payments or bribes are a crime in a foreign country, but such crimes are not enforced? If such payments are not considered illegal in a foreign country, is it proper to make such payments? From an ethical point of view, should the FCPA be read broadly or narrowly?

Is giving a bribe a victimless crime?

Does bribe-giving affect the free-market system?

How? Do you believe that the FCPA places U.S.

companies at a competitive disadvantage?