Welcome to The Woody Report, where Washington & Lee School of Law Associate Professor Karen Woody and host Tom Fox discuss issues on white collar crime, compliance issues, international corruption, securities and accounting fraud, and internal corporate…
Halloween is almost upon us, and we celebrate the greatest Halloween cartoon in the world’s history, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” which premiered in 1966. As usual, the story…
In 1951, the New York City College of New York (CCNY) basketball team stood at the pinnacle of collegiate glory. The Beavers had just achieved the impossible: winning both the…
In Part 2 of our exploration of the NBA betting scandal, we consider one of the culprits: Prop Bets. However, we also consider the roles of the NBA’s sports betting…
In the world of professional basketball, few things cut deeper than a betrayal of trust. Fans expect grit, competition, and authenticity, not a rigged game. Yet last week, the U.S….
As many of my readers know, I am a huge fan of the Classic Universal Picture Movie Monsters, focusing on the period from 1931 to the mid-1950s. In October, I…
Every compliance journey must eventually reach its reckoning —the point at which wrongdoing, however deeply embedded, must give way to accountability. In Greek tragedy, that moment comes with Orestes and Electra,…
We continue our look at lessons from the House of Atreus for the 21st-century compliance profession, focusing on key stories and mining them for compliance lessons. In today’s Part 4,…
We continue to look at the lessons from the House of Atreus for the 21st-century compliance profession, focusing on the key stories and mining them for insights. In today’s Part…
The curse of the House of Atreus did not begin and end with Tantalus. Like many toxic corporate cultures, it passed from one generation to the next a legacy of…
I have long been fascinated by the Greek myths around the House of Atreus. It is the most cursed House in all Greek myth. I have also long wanted to…
