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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: April 2, 2024 – The Welcome to CW24 Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee and listen in to the Daily Compliance News. All from the Compliance Podcast Network.

Each day, we consider four stories from the business world: compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Autonomy paid whistleblower for wrongful termination. (Law360)
  • Shell appeals climate change ruling. (FT)
  • More 1KDB-Swiss bankers are on trial. (Bloomberg)
  • More apartment seizures in NYC, this time in Trump bldg. (forbes)

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 291 – The Rams Win It All Edition


Super Sunday passed with fun but poorly played, poorly officiated, and poorly coached. Tom and Jay are back to look at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories this week in the Rams Win It All Edition.
Stories

  1. Ericsson is in more FCPA trouble. Mengqi Sun in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week(sub req’d)
  2. DD impeding compliance in developing markets? Katya Lysova explores in the FCPA Blog.
  3. ESG-no longer a nice to have. Karen Alonardo in Risk and Compliance Matters.   
  4. State AGs are waiting. Ashley Taylor and Chris Carlson in CCI.  
  5. The latest case on CCO liability. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance
  6. Broken windows and compliance enforcement. Anthony O’Reilly in Compliance and Enforcement
  7. Companies yet again ask the EU for rules around ESG. Lawrence Heim inpracticalESG.
  8. White-collar enforcement trends in 2021. Jamie Rosenberg in Grand Jury Target.  
  9. HP-Autonomy from the auditors’ perspective. Francine McKenna in The Dig
  10. South African courts deny Zuma’s attempt to remove the SA corruption prosecutor. Rick Messick in GAB.  

Podcasts and More

  1. In February on The Compliance Life, I visited Ellen Smith, a former Director of Trade Compliance who recently started her consulting firm. In Part 1, she discussed her academic background and early professional career. In Part 2, Ellen discussed her move in-house. In Part 3, Ellen discusses being a part of the Compliance Dream Team at Weatherford.
  2. Tom and Richard Lummis are in the middle of their annual review of Best Picturing winning movies on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership. Part 1 reviews Schindler’s List for leadership and ethical lessons. In Part 2, the look at Gladiator.
  3. CCI releases a new e-book from Mike Volkov, “Compliance Culture Revolution.” Available free from CCI.
  4. Tom looks at some innovation in compliance with a 3-part blog post series in the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Topics include Compliance Ecosystem GovernanceCompliance Branding, Building Culture & Compliance Coaching.
  5. Are you a Star Wars fan? How about an uber-Geek? You will love the 5-part series appearing next week on the Greeting and Felicitations podcast series on the Compliance Podcast Network if you are either or both. In this series, Tom visits astrophysicist Dr. Ben Locwin on the following topics: Traveling in Hyperspace, Fighting with a Light Saber, Mechanical Prosthetics, Cyborgs and Robots, and the Death Star. It is a ton of fun, and you will love it. Each episode will post at 10 each day next week. Check it out daily. 

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.  

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Everything Compliance

Episode 94, the National Archives Edition


Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. The entire gang was also recently honored by W3 as a top talk show in podcasting. In this episode, we have the full gang of Jonathan Marks, Karen Woody, Jonathan Armstrong, Tom Fox, Matt Kelly and Jay Rosen. We discuss a potpourri of issues. We conclude with our fan favorite Shout Outs and Rants.

  1. Karen Woody reviews the recent HeadSpin SEC enforcement action, explaining how the SEC has jurisdiction over a private company, the significance of an enforcement action with no fine or penalty and the corporate governance issues involved. Karen shouts out to the Super Bowl Halftime show for throwing love on 90s music and musical stars.
  1. Jay Rosen discusses the recently released Commission on Combatting Synthetic Opioid Trafficking Report. Rosen shouts out to celebrity chef Jose Andreas for creating the Gazpacho Police in the 1990s long before Marjorie Green Taylor accused Nancy Pelosi of doing so and for inviting Rep. Taylor to join, provided she is vaccinated and wears a mask to the restaurant.
  1. Matt Kelly looks at the Joe Rogan and Spotify imbroglio, focusing the attempts of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to focus the spotlight on Rogan and not Spotify. Kelly shouts out to that unknown US criminal enforcement agency, the National Archives which raided Mar-A-Lago where the former President had purloined some 15 boxes of Presidential papers and materials. He also gives a minor shout out to New York Times columnist Maggie Haberman who in an upcoming book reported the former President flushed documents down the toilets at the White House.
  1. Jonathan Marks discusses continuous controls monitoring and continuous auditing as best practices for compliance, risk management and fraud prevention programs. Marks shouts out to the Philadelphia 76ers for getting rid of Ben Simmons who refused to play for them. He implores Simmons to get a new agent for his disastrous handling of the entire situation.
  1. Jonathan Armstrong discusses the civil verdict for HP in its case against Autonomy and the Extradition Order delivered by the Home Secretary for Mike Lynch to go to America to stand for a US criminal trial. Armstrong shouts out to Queen Elizabeth II for her 70-year reign on the English throne.
  1. Tom Fox has a melancholy shout out to the University of Michigan School of Law and greater legal education profession, which lost two stalwart professors recently; Yale Kamisar, Father of Miranda and Terrance Sandalow, former Dean of the Law School. 

The members of the Everything Compliance are:

  • Jay Rosen– Jay is Vice President, Business Development Corporate Monitoring at Affiliated Monitors. Rosen can be reached at JRosen@affiliatedmonitors.com
  • Karen Woody – One of the top academic experts on the SEC. Woody can be reached at kwoody@wlu.edu
  • Matt Kelly – Founder and CEO of Radical Compliance. Kelly can be reached at mkelly@radicalcompliance.com
  • Jonathan Armstrong –is our UK colleague, who is an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at armstrong@corderycompliance.com
  • Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader – Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at marks@bakertilly.com

The host and producer, ranter (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Voice of Compliance. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network.

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Daily Compliance News

January 29, 2022 the Mike Lynch Guilty Edition

 
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
·      ESG expertise in short supply.  (FT)
·      If Russia invades…  (WSJ)
·      VW unceremoniously fired whistleblower. (SecurityWorld)
·      Mike Lynch found guilty. (BBC)

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Daily Compliance News

July 23, 2021 the Extradition edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Robinhood rewriting rules for going public? (NYT)
  • Brit Mike Lynch can be extradited to US. (BBC)
  • Insurers behind the times on ESG? (FT)
  • Age discrimination in RTW. (WaPo)