Frederic Bourke was convicted of conspiring to bribe government leaders in Azerbaijan in a 1998 oil deal. Bourke invested $8 million with a Czech expatriate, Viktor Kozeny, in a bid to buy SOCAR, the state oil company. Dooney & Bourke founder: “Do you think business is done at arm’s length in this part of the world?” Jurors had to determine if Bourke “deliberately closed his eyes” to what otherwise would have been obvious to him.”]

