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Oct. 22, 2025

Zaglin Conviction Offers Insights on Individual Prosecutions in Trump 2.0

  • Lori Tripoli
    Anti-Corruption Report
A federal jury’s recent guilty verdict confirms that FCPA prosecutions will persist in the second Donald Trump presidential administration. After a trial in the Southern District of Florida, Carl Zaglin, CEO of Georgia-based uniform supplier Atlanco, was convicted in September 2025 of conspiracy to commit money laundering for bribing Honduran officials to secure police supply contracts. This article analyzes the role that cooperating witnesses and international law enforcement played in the conviction and offers lessons for compliance teams, including how to identify code words for corruption using both human and artificial intelligence. See our two-part series “The FCPA Lives”: Targeting the TCO Ecosystem (Jul. 30, 2025), and Protecting American Interests (Aug. 13, 2025).

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