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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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Compliance Into the Weeds

DAG Announces Changes in Enforcement Priorities


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. Today, Matt and Tom have a rare emergency podcast on DAG Lisa Monaco’s speech to the ABA White Collar Institute on some very significant change to white collar, including FCPA enforcement. Some of the issues we consider are:

  • Return to the Yates Memo.
  • Disavowal of the Benczkowski Memo.
  • Change in the FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy?
  • Whither recidivists?
  • New enforcement tools coming?
  • New review of DPAs and NPAs?

Resources
Matt in Radical Compliance, Justice Dept. Unveils Big Compliance Shifts
Text of DAG Monaco Speech