Episode 263 – the Domestic Corruption edition


As the Tokyo Olympics continue and FirstEnergy settles one of the largest domestic corruption cases ever, Tom and Jay are back to take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Domestic Corruption edition. 
Stories

  1. The First Energy domestic corruption scandal. Rick Messick in GAB. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
  2. Obstacles to compliance training. Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
  3. Should companies go into space? Mike Volkov says no in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
  4. Is your compliance relationship with HR unleavened? Then leaven it, says Amy Dufrane in CCI.
  5. Can the Olympics be saved? Perhaps from the corruption angle. Andy Spalding in the FCPA Blog.
  6. What’s it like to be a whistleblower? Aaron Nicodemus with a 5-part series in Compliance Week (sub req’d). Aaron discusses the series on this edition of From the Editor’s Desk. (No Sub Req’d)
  7. What happens when a CCO acts like a GC? They ‘step in it’ says Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
  8. Are you afraid of your own shadow? Michael Rasmussen says you might well should be in Navex Global’s Risk and Compliance Matters.
  9. If you step in it, RAC it. Ngozi Okeh in PracticalESG.
  10. Boards and Corporate Strategies in the post-pandemic world. Wachtell, Lipton lawyers in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Podcasts and Events

  1. Jonathan Keller reviews the evolution of healthcare compliance in this episode of The Compliance Handbook.
  2. Scott Moritz turns the tables on Tom by interviewing him about his recently released book The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition on this week’s edition of Fraud Eats Strategy.
  3. On The Compliance Life, in July I visited with Asha Palmer, CECO at Convercent. In Episode 1, from Claire Huxable to the DOJ. In Episode 2, ‘What do you think about Abu Dhabi?’ In Episode 3, she moves into compliance consulting and is surprised with what she observed. In Episode 4, Asha talks about moving into the CECO role and beyond.
  4. How do the Greek Cleomenes and the Roman Giaus Graccus inform compliance leadership today? Find out as Tom and Richard Lummis continue their exploration of Plutarch’s Lives in this episode of 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership.
  5. In Integrity Through Compliance, Episode 14, Joe Miller Returns to Discuss Anticipated Antitrust Enforcement Trends in the Biden Administration.
  6. The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is released. Learn about it here. Purchase it 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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