The Justice Department has determined President Donald Trump’s pause on foreign bribery enforcement won’t prevent prosecutors from proceeding to trial in a longstanding overseas corruption case against two former technology executives.
Prosecutors informed a federal judge in New Jersey on Friday that after reviewing how Trump’s Feb. 10 executive order impacts the charges against the former Cognizant Technology president and chief legal officer, “the Government intends to proceed to trial on March 3.”
The decision follows an attempt by defense attorneys from Jones Day and Paul Weiss to convince DOJ’s acting No. 2 official, Emil Bove, to dismiss the case, ...
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