When Corporate Settlements Don’t Protect Executives: What the Corsa Coal FCPA Case Means for Today’s Compliance Programs
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement may ebb and flow across administrations, but the recent conviction of a former Corsa Coal executive makes one thing clear: the FCPA is very much alive, and individual accountability is front and center. On February 19, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs announced that a federal jury convicted Charles Hunter Hobson, a former Corsa Coal vice president, for his role in ...

