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Compliance Kitchen

Russia and FinCEN Updates


The Kitchen heads to Russia where another foreign NGO is marked as “undesirable.”  Back in the States, FinCEN is getting ready for another ransomware themed FinCEN Exchange.

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Everything Compliance

The Vaccinated Edition


Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Matt Kelly, Jay Rosen, Tom Fox and special guest panelist Karen Woody for a deep dive into a potpourri of issues and topics. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.

  1. Jay Rosen looks at how independent integrity monitors can assist to continue to health care providers deliver health care services through furthering compliance objectives. Rosen shouts out to the Golden Boy Tom Brady in asked ‘will 8 be enough’ to get the chip off Brady’s shoulders.
  2. Tom Fox sits in this week to discuss continuing HP/Autonomy fight around HP’s disastrous acquisition of Autonomy back in 2011. The latest episode occurred with a UK court approved the extradition of former Autonomy founder Mike Lynch to the US to stand trial for criminal charges. Fox shouts out to Neil Gerrard for inventing the phrase ‘global amnesia’ for explaining why he lied in sworn testimony during the ENRC trial.
  1. Karen Woody sits in as a special guest panelist. Woody discusses the recent SEC enforcement action involving a SPAC and the Ackerman withdrawal of his SPAC purchase of Universal Music. Woody shouts out to second season of Ted Lasso.
  1. Matt Kelly considers the compliance lessons from the Tandy Leather SEC enforcement action. Kelly shouts out to restaurants requiring proof of vaccination of potential customers.
  2. Jonathan Armstrong discusses what is a Chumba Wumba attack. Armstrong shouts out to author Eric Carle.

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, ranter (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.
Resources
See Matt Kelly’s blog post on Radical Compliance on the Tandy Leather SEC enforcement action.

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12 O’Clock High-a podcast on business leadership

Plutarch’s Lives- Cleomenes and Giaus Gracchus


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 are on 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 Cleomenes and Giaus Graccus.  Highlights include:
·       Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
·       Lives of Cleomenes and Giaus Graccus.
·       Comparison in the lives of Cleomenes and Giaus Graccus.
·       Land and Judicial reform in ancient Greece and Rome.
·       The role of the Plebians.
·      What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives Cleomenes and Giaus Graccus.
Resources
Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

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Daily Compliance News

July 29, 2021 the Just Got Paid Today edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Former Glencore trader charged in corruption case. (WSJ)
  • Robinhood has insider trading investigation. (WaPo)
  • Dusty Hill passes. (Rolling Stone)
  • Should Exxon lobbying efforts be investigated? (Houston Chronicle)