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…
“Nothing crosses into or out of Mexico without the approval and payment to Mexican drug cartels. American businesses that engage in any cross-border trade bear a significant amount of responsibility…
A $2,000 payment can look insignificant inside a global supply chain. Repeated train by train, approved by employees, routed through customs brokers, disguised on invoices, and paid for six years,…
One of the defining strengths of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) is its willingness to confront the thorniest questions of morality, leadership, and power. Few episodes tackle these issues…
If you have spent any time in the world of corporate compliance, you know risk assessment is not just a box-ticking exercise. It is the navigational star by which a…
There comes a time in every compliance professional’s journey when the rules and the regulations alone cannot answer the central ethical question at hand. In the fast-moving, high-stakes world of…
Probing the Unknown: Investigative Lessons from Star Trek’s “The Immunity Syndrome” There is a moment in every compliance professional’s career when you must venture into the unknown: a new country,…
Today, we conclude our five-part series on some of the intersections of. On Monday, we began with the Trojan Horse as a control failure. On Tuesday, we looked at The…
We continue our consideration of the intersection of The Odyssey and compliance by reviewing the tale of the Cattle of Helios. Odysseus’s crew had been warned and not casually warned….
Any compliance professional who has ever led a team into a new country, or even a new region, knows that the journey is never as simple as applying the same…
For compliance professionals, building a culture in which employees feel empowered to speak up, whether as victims or bystanders, is both an ethical imperative and a business necessity. Yet, fostering…
