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Daily Compliance News: May 31, 2024 – The Whites Only 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.

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Virginia businesses were fined for hiring ‘whites only’.  (WaPo)
  • Boeing has a plan to fix safety issues. (NYT)
  • Are the Olympics a reputational risk?  (FT)
  • Menendez corruption was caught in emails and texts. (Politico)

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Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from Chariots of Fire

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back with another review of an Oscar-winning Best Picture movie with an eye towards the leadership lessons that might be drawn from them. It is a great way to honor the Oscars, rewatch some great old movies and garner some interesting perspectives on leadership. We continue that tradition as we are back with more leadership lessons from Oscar-winning Best Picture movies and today’s offering is the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

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Daily Compliance News

February 15, 2022 the Dinobabies Edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
·      IBM senior management tried to get rid of older employees.  (NYT)
·      Judge Rakoff will dismiss Palin lawsuit against NYT.   (NYT)
·      Mazars USA pulls Trump Org financial statement approvals. (NYT)
·      End of Olympics? (NYT)

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 290 – the Super Sunday Edition


Super Sunday is here. The NFL finally gets the game in the spotlight after weeks of brutal PR. Who ya got? “Who Dey” or Hollywood? Tom and Jay are back look at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories this week in the Super Sunday edition.

 Stories

1.     Do compliance professionals need a union? Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
2.     Jailed employees under the FCPA. Bill Jacobsen explores in the FCPA Blog.
3.     New workplace normal for policies and training. Ingrid Freeden in Risk and Compliance Matters.
4.     New SOE risk management framework.  Alexandra Gillies and Thomas Shipley in the FCPA Blog.
5.     3 questions from KPMG and Carillion tribunal. Neil Hodge in Compliance Week(sub req’d)
6.     SFO investigation protocol announced. Mengqi Sun in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
7.     Companies yet again ask EU for rules around ESG. Lawrence Heim in practicalESG.
8.     CCOs say self-reporting a hard sell. Evren Esen in CCI.
9.     What comes next for ABC and the Olympics? Andy Spalding in GAB.
10.  The Spotify imbroglio. Matt Kelly with a 2-parter in Radical Compliance, Part 1 and Part 2.

 Podcasts and More

11.  In February on The Compliance Life, I visit with Ellen Smith, a former Director of Trade Compliance who recently started her own consulting firm. In Part 1, she discussed her academic background and early professional career. InPart 2, Ellen moves in-house.
12.  Tom and Richard Lummis begin their annual review of Best Picturing winning movies on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership. In Part 1 they review Schindler’s List for leadership and ethical lessons. Upcoming episodes will look at Gladiator, A Man for All Seasons and Platoon.
13.  CCI releases new e-book from Tom “FCPA 2021 Year in Review”. Available free from CCI.
14.  Trial of the Century-the Enron Trial. This week, Tom premiered a 5-part podcast series on the Enron Trial with Loren Steffy, who covered the trial for the Houston Chronicle. In Part 1, run up to the trial. In Part 2, the trial begins. In Part 3, the star witnesses and key testimony. In Part 4, the Verdict comes in. In Part 5, what did it all mean. It is be available on the Compliance Podcast Network, Megaphone, iTunes, Spotify and all other top podcast platforms.
15.  In a special 2-part series on the Sunday Book Review, Tom looks at the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership’s top books on ethical leadership from 2021. Part 1 and Part 2.
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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Daily Compliance News

June 5, 2021 the Tokyo Olympics edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • NYC Bar proposes liability framework for CCOs.  (WSJ)
  • Speaking out to the press. (NYT)
  • Will Tokyo Olympics really go off? (FT)
  • EU and UK open investigations in Facebook (FT)