{"id":712,"date":"2025-09-25T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/?post_type=news_events&#038;p=712"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:05:14","slug":"democrats-are-plotting-a-brazen-147b-student-loan-debt","status":"publish","type":"news_events","link":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/news_events\/democrats-are-plotting-a-brazen-147b-student-loan-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foreign Extortion Prevention Act: A New Step Against Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Congress has passed the <strong>Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA)<\/strong>, a landmark law that strengthens the fight against global corruption. Unlike previous laws that mainly punished American companies for paying bribes abroad, FEPA now makes it a crime for foreign officials to demand or receive bribes from U.S. individuals or businesses. This shift closes a major loophole in anti-corruption enforcement and promotes fair business practices worldwide. By holding foreign officials accountable, the U.S. takes a firm stance against corruption, sending a clear message that unethical practices will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Extortion Prevention Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":713,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"news":[],"events":[29],"class_list":["post-712","news_events","type-news_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","events-the-foreign-extortion-prevention-act"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"events","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmiddleeastcouncil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}