What happens when an investigator stumbles upon a personal detail that leads to professional misdeeds? In Episode 3 of Digging Deeper, Chris Morgan Jones interviews Lisa Silverman, senior managing director in Chicago, about cases where the personal interfered with the professional.
One of the most challenging parts of an investigator’s job is to not try and make the facts stick to a theory – but to develop a theory based on the actual facts. Everyone has a story, and often a client can have a theory. But what sets an investigator apart is the ability to find the accurate story, not the popular one. With the ever-increasing amount of information available on the internet, getting the information is just the first step. Where an investigator’s skills come in now are in undertaking a thoughtful analysis, separating accurate information from falsehoods, and then determining how the information fits together to tell a story. Also, the repositories for information have changed over time. For example: twenty years ago, when investigating an employee for fraud, it was common to physically sift through files for details. While that still happens, more often, investigators forensically image the subject’s computer and conduct their analysis digitally.
As investigations become more complex, the ability to observe and think critically have become invaluable to uncovering the facts and securing the right outcome. Whether the issues centers around cybercrimes; trade secrets spirited overseas; a due diligence on a prospective executive or board-level hire; a range of frauds; or a variety of international compliance issues with no easy solutions; a deep dive into a potential investment; or a range of other challenges, a skilled investigator’s job is to follow the trail of clues to the bare facts, and then to help clients use them in a way that is as whole and protected as possible in the corporate and legal arenas they occupy.
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Day: February 18, 2021
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Jonathan Armstrong, Jonathan Marks, Matt Kelly and Jay Rosen for a deep dive into plethora of topics generally related to the GOAT in football and the Coronavirus pandemic. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.
- Jonathan Armstrong joins us from London to review the UK Supreme Court decision in the KBR Section 2 document request case. He shouts out to the UK Judiciary for its perseverance during the Coronavirus health crisis and a special shout out to Texas lawyer Tiddles the Cat.
- Matt Kelly considers the recent CDC guidance on vaccine and the return to work movement by asking how it all will impact compliance. Matt shouts out to GOP Representative Adam Kissinger for his calling out the hypocritical behavior in failing to punish Donald Trump for leading an insurrection against America.
- Jonathan Marks looks at the Fraud Pentagon in the context of fraud risks in the era of the Coronavirus pandemic. Marks shouts to former National Holdings CCO Kay Johnson for her victory over her former employer who fired her when she investigated the company CEO for securities law violations.
- Jay Rosen pens a love sonnet to the GOAT and his former QB Tom Brady and looks at Tompa Bay’s accomplishment from the compliance perspective. Rosen shouts out to Twitter and FB for banning the former President from their platforms.
- Tom Fox rants about former KPMG UK chairman Bill Michael who was forced to resign after telling KPMG employees to ‘stop whining’ about working during the Coronavirus pandemic. For good measure Michael said there was no such thing as ‘unconscious bias’ against minorities.
The members of the Everything Compliance are:
- Jay Rosen– Jay is Vice President, Business Development Corporate Monitoring at Affiliated Monitors. Rosen can be reached at JRosen@affiliatedmonitors.com
- Mike Volkov – One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at mvolkov@volkovlawgroup.com
- Matt Kelly – Founder and CEO of Radical Compliance. Kelly can be reached at mkelly@radicalcompliance.com
- Jonathan Armstrong –is our UK colleague, who is an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at armstrong@corderycompliance.com
- Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader – Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at marks@bakertilly.com
The host and producer (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Voice of Compliance. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network.
