Tom and Jay were both conferencing this week, albeit in different disciplines. Tom at Podfest Expo and Jay at the ABA White Collar Crime conference. In between they discussed some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes.

1. MTS has massive FCPA resolution. Harry Cassin breaks the story in the FCPA Blog. See DOJ Press Release. See SEC Cease and Desist Order.
2. CTFT to follow DOJ lead on enforcement and SEC lead on Whistleblowers. Dick Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog. See CTFT Press Release.
3. Hacienda Healthcare is one of the worst corporate governance failures ever. Matt Kelly writes about it in Radical Compliance. Tom and Matt take a deep dive in Episode 113 of Compliance into the Weeds.
4. Gulnara Karimova charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering in the whooping amount of $866MM. Harry Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog. See DOJ Press Release.
5. Are consumers the new regulators of global business practices? Richard Young explores in the Navex Global’s Ethics and Compliance Matters
6. Are Boards getting sufficient information on risk? Kristin Broughton reports in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Matt Kelly says compliance professionals can help in Navex Global’s Ethics and Compliance Matters.
7. Is Baker MacKenzie in deep trouble over JBF bribery settlement? Former partner to be deposed over hire of Brazilian prosecutor. Michael Macagnone reports in Law360. The same partner left the firm to join Peirce Bainbridge, Clara Hudson reports in GIR. (sub req’d on both)
8. Dutch prosecutors have told Shell the company will be criminally indicted over its role in obtain drilling rights in Nigeria. Chloe Taylor reports in CNBC.com.
9. Jay begins a new role as a Featured Columnist on Corporate Compliance Insights. Check out CCI’s cool new look. (Interview with CCI’s new EIC Sarah Haddon next week).
10. Rod Rosenstein says farewell to the compliance community. Text of Rosenstein speech here.
11. Tom returns his periodic podcast series the Opinion Release Papers, with a five-part offering this week. Check out the following: Part 1-Opinion Release 10-03 on charitable donations under the FCPA; Part 2-Opinion Release 10-02 on hiring foreign officials as agents; Part 3– Opinion Release 07-01, travel for foreign officials; Part 4-Opinion Release 07-02, travel for and entertainment of foreign officials; Part 5-Opinion Release 11-01, why should you use the process. The podcast is available on multiple sites: the FCPA Compliance Report, iTunes, JDSupra, Panoplyand YouTube. The Compliance Podcast Network is now also on Spotify. It is now also on Corporate Compliance Insights.

Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist 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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