In order to allow more strict enforcement of the FCPA, in 2010 the SEC developed a specialized unit within its enforcement division to focus on foreign bribes made by U.S. companies. This enforcement has brought a number of well-known U.S. and international companies under the gun, so to speak.
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American advocate of the abolition of the institution of slavery. Garrison was born in 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He received a limited education as a child, but he supplemented his schooling by working for various newspapers. He had several articles published in the Salem Gazette, before opening his own newspaper, the Newburyport Free Press, in 1826.
Cite This Source. William Lloyd Garrison in Abolitionists. William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was one of the most prominent and uncompromising abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Garrison published The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, from 1831 until the day that all American slaves were freed, 34 years later. He also organized the first Anti-Slavery Society in New England, and co-founded the first nationwide organization, the American Anti-Slavery Society.