In mid-June, a senior prosecutor in the Justice Department drafted a letter to a lawyer for Boston-based construction firm, CDM Smith, laying out her agency’s findings that the company’s employees bribed Indian government officials to win lucrative contracts.
According to the letter , posted online June 30 on the DOJ’s website, CDM Smith employees paid $1.1 million in bribes between 2011 and 2015 in order to win contracts that helped it net $4 million in profits -- in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits bribing foreign government officials.
But instead of bringing charges, the DOJ’s letter informed ...
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