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…
Today, I wrap-up a two-part series on the intersection of a toxic culture and the Fraud Triangle. We began by exploring the attributes of a toxic culture and how they…
The fraud triangle is well-known to most compliance practitioners. It is pressure, opportunity and rationalization. When these three factors converge, there is danger of an ethical lapse which could lead…
A recent Inc.com article caught my eye about a series of events that returning Starbucks Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Howard Schultz has been engaging in. According to author Justin Bariso,…
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action, involving the waste management company, Stericycle, Inc. (Stericycle)….
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action, involving the waste management company, Stericycle, Inc. (Stericycle)….
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action, involving the waste management company, Stericycle, Inc….
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. To say that the respondent company, Stericycle, Inc. (Stericycle) had…
The digital transformation of compliance will probably be the biggest change in our profession since the move to operationalizing compliance in the past decade. Legal professionals are generally ill-suited to…
The Roger Ng Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) trial has now concluded its jury phase. Last week the jury came back with a stunning victory for the prosecution with a…
The Roger Ng Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) trial has now concluded its testimony phase, the parties have closed and the decision on freedom or not for Ng rests with…
