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Daily Compliance News

February 20, 2023 – The Presidents’ Day 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 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.

Stories we are following in today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • China top investment banker disappears. (Bloomberg)
  • Main Justice to take over corruption investigation into Texas AG. (MSNBC)
  • Can the arbitration clause eviscerate CA state law on employment claims? (Reuters)
  • Freeport trader charged with FCPA violations. (WSJ)

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The Compliance Life

Scott Garland – To the DOJ and the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property and National Security Unit

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What skills does a CCO need to navigate the compliance waters in any company successfully? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced, and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, I am joined by Scott Garland, Managing Director at AMI. Scott came to AMI from the DOJ, where he held the role of Professional Responsibility Officer. As he described, it was akin to a CCO role for the US Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts.

With a knack for understanding technology, relating it to legal issues, and translating it for lawyers, judges, and juries, Garland went to the DOJ, working at Main Justice in Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section in DC. His work there included criminal investigations and trials, policy analysis, and drafting manuals. From that position, he moved to Boston to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. He began in the Cybercrime Unit, then National Security Unit, eventually becoming NSU’s Deputy Chief, then Acting Chief of the Unit. Along the way, he picked up a variety of advisory responsibilities: identity theft coordinator, committee on dealing with cooperating witnesses, and grand jury supervisor.

Resources

Scott Garland’s Profile on AMI