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Everything Compliance

This Week in FCPA-Episode 158 – the Sweet Caroline edition

With Tom and Jay together for a week in the City of Champions (Boston) and Tom finally getting to Fenway Park to sing Sweet Caroline, he and Jay to take a break to join discuss both events some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes.

  1. Who owns a bribe and why does it matter?
  2. What are the 6 hats of an AML compliance professional?
  3. Two prosecutors leave DOJ.
  4. What are some of the impacts of working with monitors?
  5. FBI skewered in another FCPA sting trial.
  6. Trump Tower in Moscow? What is the story?
  7. Italy enacts a law to provide credit for remediation during corruption investigations.
  8. Two top FCPA prosecutors leave DOJ and go into private practice.
  9. And you think you are having a bad day? Matt Kelly looks at an assination attempt on a CAE in South Africa.
  10. What is ghost money?
  11. Tom has a special 3-part podcast series this week, looking at leadership lessons from Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur and Truman’s firing of MacArthur on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership. Check out the following: Part 1-Leadership lessons from Harry Truman; Part 2-Leadership lessons from Douglas MacArthur; Part 3– Leadership lessons from Truman’s firing of MacArthur. The podcast is available on multiple sites: the FCPA Compliance Report, iTunes, JDSupra, Megaphone,YouTube,  Spotifyand Corporate Compliance Insights,  Compliance Podcast Networkand now on the C-Suite Radio Network.
  12. The Everything Compliance gang begins a two-part podcast series looking at the Trump Administration’s first 6 months of 2019, from the compliance perspective. In Part 1, Matt Kelly, Sarah Hadden and Mike Volkov weigh in. In Part 2 (to be released June 27) Jay Rosen, Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox opine.

Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.
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Trekking Through Compliance

Trekking Through Compliance-Episode 13- The Conscience of the King

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Conscience of the King which aired on December 8, 1966, Star Date 2817.6.
Compliance Takeaways:
  1. When does a leader step over the line from business to personal?
  2. Can you ever be sure in an investigation absent a confession?
  3. What is the difference between an investigation and a root cause analysis?
Resources
Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein for The Conscience of the King
MissionLogPodcast.com-The Conscience of the King
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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: June 14, 2019, the don’t drink the water edition

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Don’t drink the water (not in Mexico) in Flint. (NYT)
  • Corruption as free speech? (BBC)
  • Well that’s akward. Wife of GOP rep pleads guilty to husband/wife corruption? (Bloomberg)
  • Ex-Houston Texas GM accused of targeting blacks for termination and replacement with white employees. (SI.com)