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…
In a new season of Adventures in Compliance, we have journeyed through the ethical, investigative, and leadership lessons in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s foundational Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet….
In a move that should surprise no corporate compliance professional, the DOJ’s Criminal Division issued a new Memo on May 12, 2025, updating and clarifying its policies on the selection,…
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. 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…
