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…
I continue my Great Structures Week with focus on structural engineering innovations from ancient Rome. I am drawing these posts from The Teaching Company course, “Understanding the World’s Greatest Structures:…
I continue my Great Structures Week with a focus on great structures from the earliest times, ancient Egypt and Greece. I am drawing these posts from The Teaching Company course,…
In “Understanding the World’s Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity”, by Professor Stephen Ressler, he explores some of the world’s greatest structures and the development of structural…
One of the requirements consistent throughout the Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organization (US Sentencing Guidelines) and its section on corporate compliance programs; the Organization for Economic Co-operation and…
In 2006, Germany-based Siemens was ranked 22nd on the Global Fortune 500 with revenues of $100 billion. It was a global leader and one of the world’s most admired companies. Until…
One thing compliance professionals are rarely trained to do is trust your eyes. This may be because it seems too obvious. After all the well-known Howard Sklar maxim of “Water…
How should you assess your internal controls regime for international operations? It is incumbent that you need to review as much information as you can to understand the financial and…
We sadly had two more examples of how companies are fighting transparency and the light of day through actions taken against whistleblowers. With these two examples we see once again…
After revisiting “Parking in India” from 2012, we return to explore more from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) recidivist Oracle Corporation. We previously reviewed the bribery schemes in general…
In this post, we conclude our exploration of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving the now recidivist Oracle Corporation. This enforcement action was concluded with the Securities…
