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…
Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), recently delivered a speech at SIFMA’s Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Conference. Contemporaneously, the DOJ…
Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), recently delivered a speech at SIFMA’s Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Conference. Galeotti outlined crucial…
Yesterday, I began a two-part blog post on preparing to respond to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new Data Security Program (DSP), which was released on April 8, 2025. Today, I…
Yesterday, I introduced the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new Data Security Program (DSP), which was released on April 8, 2025, and implemented under Executive Order 14117. Today, I want to begin reviewing…
In an age where data is the new oil, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped a regulatory hammer with the release of the Data Security Program (DSP), which was…
Yesterday, I wrote about a Declination issued by the Department of Justice issued a Declination to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a nonprofit organization working with NASA on advanced scientific…
In the fast-moving world of enforcement actions and corporate misconduct, we rarely get an actual “bottle episode” of compliance—a neatly wrapped case that functions almost like a compliance case study…
We are at the end of this week’s exploration of how middle managers can elevate your organization’s compliance regime. While I named the week’s series Muddle in the Middle, I…
We continue exploring how a corporate compliance function can use middle managers to make compliance more effective. This is perhaps the most dynamic era for business, with sweeping reengineering, digitization,…
We continue our exploration of the role of middle managers in compliance. In compliance, we often focus heavily on top executives’ tone at the top and frontline employees’ behaviors at…
