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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: October 29, 2024 – The Olympus Chief Fired 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:

  • Olympus chief fired for purchasing illegal drugs. (FT)
  • Alibaba settles with shareholders for $433MM. (WSJ)
  • Will the Houston Chronicle business columnist be jailed under a Trump Administration? (Houston Chronicle)
  • Carlos Watson says guilty verdict should be tossed. (Reuters)

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Daily Compliance News

August 3, 2022 the Bringing Corruption Back edition

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Trump allies seek to reinstitute patronage to the civil service. (Politico)
  • Corruption in the Italian judiciary. (GAB)
  • Of wildfires and compliance. (WSJ)
  • Bribery allegation against Rick Pitino. (com)
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Daily Compliance News

June 6, 2022 the D-Day Edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Bermuda doubles down as a crypto center. (WSJ)
  • Even more corrupt than Nixon. (WaPo)
  • NFTs-the wild west. (NYT)
  • Stellantis to plead guilty to emissions fraud. (NYT)
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Compliance Into the Weeds

Barr Sentencing Memo and Trump Pardons


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 we take a deep dive into Donald Trump ordering (via Twitter) the AG to reduce the length of sentence requested for Roger Stone and his pardons of 13 convicted white-collar criminals.
Some of the highlights include:

  • What is the background to the Barr Sentencing Memo?
  • Can white collar defense lawyers use the DOJ reasoning to decouple of the sentencing guidelines?
  • What does all this mean for corporate culture?
  • When will Trump start attacking companies for doing business ethically?
  • What are the implications for the compliance discipline and CCO?
  • What tensions does all this create for the corporate compliance and corporate legal functions?
  • What happens when arbitrary behavior emanates from the top of an organization?

Resources
Matt Kelly blog post, Lessons from Justice Department Meltdown

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Everything Compliance

Everything Compliance-Episode 49-Trump Administration and Compliance, Half-Year Report, Part 2

Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have the full quintet of Mike Volkov, Jay Rosen, Matt Kelly, Jonathan Armstrong and our newest colleague, Sarah Hadden. In this episode, we conclude a two-part episode where we consider the Trump Administration and Compliance, Part 2. In our prior episode, Part 1 Sarah Hadden, Mike Volkov and Matt Kelly as gave their views. This episode features Jay Rosen, Jonathan Armstrong and your host, Tom Fox.
Jay Rosen considers the evolution in the DOJ’s thinking about corporate compliance programs from the Benczkowski Memo in October 2019 to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, 2019 Guidance, issued in April 2019. Jay shouts out on those who help out.
Jonathan Armstrong discusses the wild swings in US trade policy, and the administration’s overall antipathy to the EU and UK trade regimes, data protection laws and commerce in general. Jonathan rants on British politicians whose admissions of recreational drug use could keep them from entering the US.
Tom Fox considers what the three top enforcement actions from the first half of the year tell us where DOJ enforcement may be headed. Fox rants about the petty criticism of the DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs. Fox rants on 24-hour helplines which are not working numbers.
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
Mike Volkov– One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at mvolkov@volkovlawgroup.com.
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 lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at armstrong@corderycompliance.com
Sarah Hadden–Publisher at Corporate Compliance Insights. Hadden can be reached at Sarah@corporatecomplianceinsights.com.
The host and producer (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Compliance Evangelist. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network. Now it is part of C-Suite Radio.
Check out Part 1 of this two-part series here.