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…
For U.S. compliance professionals, few jurisdictions raise as many red flags as Venezuela. Decades of entrenched corruption, state capture of key industries, economic collapse, weak rule of law, and the…
As reported by the Financial Times, there was an extraordinary article titled The Adolescence of Technology, posted by Anthropic head Dario Amodei, whose company is among those pushing the frontiers…
Recently, my colleague Matt Kelly wrote a blog post about retaliation against Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs). Matt and I explored it in an episode of the podcast Compliance into the…
Corporate Boards are no longer asking whether their organizations will use artificial intelligence. The business has already answered that question. The only question that matters now is whether AI is…
In this five-part series, I have walked through the core compliance risks US energy companies will face as they consider a return to Venezuela. We began with bribery and corruption…
In this five-part series, I have walked through the core compliance risks US energy companies will face as they consider a return to Venezuela. We began with bribery and corruption…
We continue to explore what the ‘reopening’ of Venezuela to US energy companies means for the compliance professional. Over the last two days, we considered the corruption issues in Parts…
We continue our review of bribery and corruption issues (ABC) that you must address before you travel to Venezuela. There is another set of problems that every compliance professional will…
When US energy companies talk about returning to Venezuela, the conversation almost always starts with opportunity. Yet the CEO of Exxon has said Venezuela is ‘uninvestible’. There is another set…
We conclude our exploration of how ancient Greek philosophers influence compliance and ethics in 2026 and beyond. In this series, we have considered Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Pythagoras. Today, we…
