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Fraud Eats Strategy

The Return of the Road Warrior: What to Expect from the Resumption of Business Travel

In this week’s episode of Fraud Eats Strategy, host Scott Moritz discusses what individuals can expect as they resume travel and other “know before you go” resources for travel safety with Michael Savicki, VP of Global Business Travel at American Express.

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Join us each week as we take a deep dive into the various forms of fraud across the world and discuss crime families, penny stock boiler rooms, international money launderers, narco-traffickers, oligarchs, dictators, warlords, kleptocrats and more.

Scott Moritz is a leading authority on white-collar crime, anti-corruption, and in the evaluation, design, remediation, implementation, and administration of corporate compliance programs, codes of conduct. He is also considered an authority in the establishment, training, and oversight of the investigative protocols carried out by financial intelligence, corporate security, and internal audit units.
 

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EMBARGOED!

EMBARGOED! Episode 31: Hitting Reset on E.O. 13959

Brian and Tim kick things off by analyzing the complete do-over called by the Biden administration with respect to E.O. 13959 and contemplate what that means for the future of U.S. person restrictions relating to investments in publicly traded securities of Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies. Next, we consider the possible sanctions implications of the new White House directive targeting corruption and check in on the future of the Burma sanctions program in light of the deepening crisis. Finally, in the Lightning Round, we decipher the latest news on JCPOA 2.0, discuss the possible repercussions of Hamas touting its digital currency fundraising efforts, and evaluate recent criticism of the glacial pace of ECRA implementation.

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Timestamps:
0:10 Introduction and Roadmap
The Rundown
5:00 New Chinese Military Company E.O.
27:41 White House Anti-Corruption Directive
36:52 Burma Sanctions Regulations (and Burma Update)
44:57 Lightning Round
45:09 Checking in on JCPOA 2.0
49:27 Hamas Bitcoin Donations
55:10 ECRA Implementation Fail
1:05:44 Final Thoughts

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Compliance Kitchen

Belarus and Airspace


Staying in Europe, the Kitchen review’s EU’s prohibition of Belarus from its airspace and airports.  Next we review the recent collaboration between the US Customs and Nike in their efforts to fight the multi billion dollar counterfeits industry.

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12 O’Clock High-a podcast on business leadership

Plutarch’s Lives-Themistocles and Camillus


12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Themistocles and the Roman Camillus.  Highlights include:

  • Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
  • Lives of Themistocles and Camillus.
  • Comparison in the lives of Themistocles and Camillus.
  • What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Themistocles and Camillus.

Resources
Plutarch’s Themistocles and Camillus by Timothy Duff
Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

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Daily Compliance News

June 10, 2021 the Love Machine edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Goldman Sachs to paying $1.26 bn in fine. (Malay Mail)
  • Former Bombardier exec charged with bribery. (Toronto Star)
  • New white-collar cop on EU beat. (WSJ)
  • Duhnke even more corrupt than we knew. (Bloomberg)