Daniel Och and his hedge fund firm Och-Ziff Capital Management (OZM) found themselves in hot water this year after one of the firm's foreign funds got mixed up in a bribery scandal in Africa. In September, Och-Ziff's African subsidiary pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to bribing officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo in exchange for access to exclusive mining deals in which to invest. Och-Ziff and its founder agreed to pay more than $414 million to settle the investigation.