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Sun Open-Sources U.S. Antibribery Laws

John Paczkowski in News on May 8, 2009 at 11:39 am PT

A couple bombshells in Sun Microsystems’s latest 10-Q filing. Seems the company believes it may have violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bans bribery of foreign government officials. Oh, and some of its shareholders are suing to block its acquisition by Oracle.