Mexican Electricity: Pursuing State-Owned Corporations

• Author: Cecil C. Kuhne III
• Pages: 111-115

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Mexican Electricity:

Pursuing State-Owned

Corporations

United States v. Aguilar

783 F.Supp.2d 1108 (C.D.Cal. 2011)

On October 21, 2010, the federal government led an indictment

charging Lindsey Manufacturing Company, Keith Lindsey, and Steve

Lee with violating the FCPA by paying bribes to two high-ranking

employees of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), an electric

utility company wholly owned by the Mexican government.

According to the indictment, Lindsey Manufacturing f unneled

bribes to two CFE employees—Néstor Moreno and Arturo Hernán-

dez—by making payments to Grupo International as “commissions”

for services performed by Enrique Aguilar in his capacity as Lindsay’s