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Everything Compliance - Shout Outs and Rants

Episode 107, Shout Outs and Rants

Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Everything Compliance was honored by W3 as a top talk show in podcasting. In this episode, we have the full gang of Jonathan Marks, Matt Kelly, Jonathan Armstrong, Jay Rosen, Tom Fox, and Karen Woody.

1. Matt Kelly shouts out to everyone who voted.

2. Karen Woody rants about the Russian government’s treatment of Brittany Griner and her shipment to a Russian penal colony.

3. Jonathan Marks shouts out to the Houston Astros for winning the World Series and continues his ongoing rant about takeaway food from Chipotle.

4. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out the Houston restaurant Mac N’ Wings for having Asian/Southern fusion food and the hottest curry he has ever tasted.

5. Jay Rosen shouts out to former Patriot Julian Edelman, who spoke forcefully against antisemitism.

6. Tom Fox joins in to shout out to Kerrville City Councilperson Brenda Hughes, who defended the City of Kerrville’s Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library’s right to have books on LGBTQ+ issues.

The members of 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 jonathan.armstrong@corderycompliance.com

•       Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader – Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at jonathan.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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From the Editor's Desk

October and November in Compliance Week

Welcome to From the Editor’s Desk, a podcast where co-hosts Tom Fox and Kyle Brasseur, EIC at Compliance Week, unpack some of the top stories which have appeared in Compliance Week over the past month, look at top compliance stories upcoming for the next month, talk some sports and generally try to solve the world’s problems.

In this month’s episode, we look back at top stories in CW from October around the Lafarge criminal action, the former Uber CISO convicted criminally for attempting to hide a data breach, and the agreement between Google and the DOJ for the company to create a position of a legal compliance monitor. We previewed some of the stories CW will look at in November, including the current state of SEC rulemaking, and Kyle teased out some findings from the CW ‘Inside the Mind of the CCO’ survey, which recently concluded.

We conclude with a look at some of the top sports stories, including a look at a Red Sox fan’s view of the 2022 World Series, ask about a quarterback controversy in New England and overreact to the first week of the NBA season.

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Greetings and Felicitations

Dan Levitt-Cheating in Baseball

Welcome to the Greetings and Felicitations, a podcast where I explore topics that might not seem directly related to compliance but influence our profession. In this episode, I visit Dan Levitt, co-author (with Mark Armour) of the book Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating. Highlights include:

  • Competitive people will always seek an advantage. Legal or occasional otherwise.
  • Many at the forefront of innovation are also those who break the rules.
  • Baseball and cheating have a long history together.
  • Innovations from outside baseball can also present a temptation to cheat.
  • The reaction to cheating: change over time? Why different over different infractions?
  • Implicit cost-benefit analysis to cheating.
  • Why and when does cheating lead to chaos and controversy

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Intentional Balk

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Everything Compliance - Shout Outs and Rants

Shout Outs and Rants from Episode 104

Welcome to theShout Outs and Rants from the Everything Compliance gang. In this episode, we have the quintet of Jonathan Marks, Jay Rosen, Tom Fox, Jonathan Armstrong, and Matt Kelly on a variety of shoutouts.

1. Jay Rosen shouts out to the firm Moxie, who is trying to create Oxygen from CO2 so that life can exist on Mars.

2. Matt Kelly shouts out to NASA engineers who scrubbed the space shuttle launch due to safety concerns.

3. Jonathan Marks shouts out the 30th anniversary of the US Sentencing Guidelines.

4. Tom Fox shouts out the American League-leading Houston Astros.

5. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out to the British television show “Have I Got News” for skewering Boris Johnson with his own words.

The members of 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 jonathan.armstrong@corderycompliance.com

•       Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader – Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at jonathan.marks@bakertilly.com

The host and producer 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

October 23, 2021 the Back to the World Series edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Astros headed back to the World Series.(ESPN)
  • Honeywell reserves for FCPA settlement. (WSJ)
  • DOJ accuses Ericsson of breaching DPA. (WSJ)
  • Pierce criticizes Credit Suisse settlement. (WSJ)
  • Theranos misappropriate logo. (WSJ)
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Compliance Into the Weeds

Lessons from the Astros Sign Stealing Scandal

Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. In this episode Matt indulges me as we take a deep dive into the Houston Astros sign stealing scandal. We mine the episode for compliance and ethics lessons. It turns out there are quite a few.

Some of the highlights include:

  • What was the role amnesty to the players played in both the speed of the MLB Report and its thoroughness?
  • Does the MLB sanctions against Luhnow and Hinch send a clear (enough) signal?
  • It was a technology innovation which led to the scandal. How does that inform a compliance professional?
  • Houston’s culture was broken. How can it be fixed?
  • Did the Mets and Red Sox both actually consider keeping Alex Cora and Carlos Beltran? If so why?

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Tom’s five blog posts (to date) in the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.
 Part 1-The Scandal
Part 2-Luhnow and Hinch
Part 3-Compliance Lessons
Part 4-Ethics and The Truth of the Game
Part 5–the Whistleblower and Amnesty

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Daily Compliance News

January 14, 2020, the Astros Hammered edition


In today’s edition of the Daily Compliance News:

  • MLB lays down unprecedented fines on Houston Astros. (com)
  • Astros owner fired GM and Manager. (Houston Chronicle)
  • Former Astros GM declares “I am not a cheater”. (Houston Chronicle)
  • Does MLB have a technology problem? (ESPN)
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Daily Compliance News

November 14, 2019, the Astros Caught Cheating edition

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • McDermott doesn’t bother to tell lenders it was under SEC investigation. (WSJ)
  • Astros accused of cheating. Why MLB must step in? (ESPN.com)
  • USOPC President tells Congress they can’t engage in oversight. Good luck with that. (WSJ)
  • Merkel says Europe must seize its data back from Silicon Valley. (FT)