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Fraud Eats Strategy

Investigation Challenges: The More Things Change, the More They Stay The Same

Host Scott Moritz was a guest speaker at the October NAVEX Next Virtual Conference joined by Gregory Coleman, a former FBI colleague, to discuss established investigation techniques and how some of these practices have changed in recent times.

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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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Compliance Kitchen

Penalty for Crypto Services to North Korea


The DOJ obtains a guilty plea to providing crypto services to N Korea, in violation of US sanctions.  Stop by as the Kitchen reviews the details.

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 273 – the Back in the ALCS edition


The Astros and Red Sox meet in the ALCS. Is it the Cheater’s Ball? Tom and Jay are back to review some of the top compliance and ethics stories on the Back in the ALCS edition.
 Stories

  1. Who knows what values lurk in the heart? The Shadow know (and your emails as well). The John Gruden firing. ESPN, Sports Illustrated, NYT, WSJ. Tom with a 2-part blog post series.
  2. Confronting Ethical and Moral Dilemmas: Don’t Go It Alone. Richard Snell in Knowledge@Wharton.
  3. Evolution of 3rd party risk management. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
  4. The role of employees in weeding out corp misconduct. David Smagalla in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
  5. Ex-Braskem CEO gets 20 months. Kyle Brasseur in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
  6. Cooperating (or not) with the SFO. Lloydettte Bai-Marrow in the FCPA Blog.
  7. Inconsistency in UK and EU banking regs? Deepali Nijhawan in CCI.
  8. What is tech risk? Carol Williams in Risk and Compliance Matters.
  9. Ozy from the audit perspective. Francine McKenna in The Dig. (sub req’d)
  10. ESG channels Watergate (as in follow the money). Lawrence Heim in practicalESG.

 Podcasts and Events

  1. Compliance Week is going ‘Inside the Mind of the CCO’. Participate in the survey here.
  2. Ethisphere’s World Most Ethical Company awards for 2022 are open for submission. For more information on the Application Process, click here.
  3. Are you exasperated? Then check, F*ing Argentina. In this podcast series co-hosts Tom Fox and Gregg Greenberg, author of F*ing Argentina explore the current American psyche of being overworked, over leveraged, overtired and overwhelmed. Find out about modern America’s exasperation with well…exasperation. In Episode 1, the dreaded Parent Meeting night at your child’s elementary school. In Episode 2, why F*ing Argentina? In Episode 3, one of the most beloved characters in musical theater, Officer Krupke is exasperated. In Episode 4, the ubiquitous ‘Couples Dinner’. In Episode 5, a tennis journeyman’s lament.
  4. This month on The Compliance Month, I visit with John Melican, Managing Director at Exiger on his journey to and from the CCO chair. In Episode 1, college and early professional career at NY County DA’s Office. In Episode 2, Melican moves into the corporate world and into compliance.
  5. What is Design Thinking in Compliance? Check out the newest edition to the CPN, where co-hosts Tom Fox and Carsten Tams discuss the social engineering tool of design thinking and how it creates greater compliance engagement and effectiveness. In Episode 2, we take up co-creation.
  6. How does a Compliance Bible become a best-seller? Check out Tom’s appearance on the C-Suite Network’s Best Seller TV to find out. Purchase The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition here.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance 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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Daily Compliance News

October 15, 2021 the Know When to Fold ‘Em edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • LinkedIn folds in China.(WSJ)
  • Pizza night no more? (Bloomberg)
  • Kenyan Preside to visit US. (Axios)
  • Does Green mean higher FCPA risk? (NYT)