Alcohol Distributor Resolves Violations for $12.5 Million

What Southern Glazer’s compliance overhaul tells us about an effective anti-bribery programme - VinciWorks

A company can have a code of conduct, compliance policies, training and a whistleblowing process and still have a serious compliance failure. That is one of the more useful lessons from the US Department of Justice’s September 2026 settlement with Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. The US alcohol distributor agreed to pay $12.5 million under […]

Southern Glazer’s Compliance Roadmap: How the ECCP Helped Turn Serious Misconduct into an NPA - Compliance Podcast Network

For years, compliance professionals have turned to the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP) to answer a fundamental question: What does an effective compliance program actually look like? Unfortunately, given statements from the early Trump Administration, many compliance professionals feared the Administration would withdraw or otherwise eviscerate the ECCP. Southern Glazer’s resolution gives us one of the …

Alcohol Distributor Resolves Violations for $12.5 Million

On September 10, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Northern District of California announced that Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, LLC (Southern Glazer’s), the largest distributor of wine and spirits in the United States, entered into a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) to resolve a federal criminal investigation into the company’s bribery, false invoicing, and...