News Corp. has hired Mark Mendelsohn, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who has extensive experience with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, to advise it, people familiar with the matter said.
Mendelsohn’s mandate couldn’t be learned.
Until last year, Mendelsohn was in charge of prosecuting suspected violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for the Justice Department, as deputy chief of the department’s fraud section. He presided over a broad crackdown on corporate corruption abroad, levying record-breaking fines and prosecuting executives for bribery.