This Week in FCPA-Episode 161 – Happy July 4th Weekend

Tom is back from Keynoting at the Le Circle De La Compliance in Paris. After the July 4thcelebrations he and Jay are back with a host of news from the world of compliance and ethics.  They are back  to discuss some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes.

  1. More Walmart. Dylan Tokar on the attorney/client waiver issue which arose during the case and what it may mean for the issue going forward. How and why was the Walmart monitorship issue decided.
  2. How can subcultures work to poison a corporate culture.
  3. What is the significance of the TechnipFMC Deferred Prosecution Agreement?
  4. SFO agrees to DPA (subject to court approval) with SERCO.
  5. France moving towards more DPAs.
  6. CFTC awards whistleblowers $2MM.
  7. Why is ‘too good to be true’ still a correct maxim?
  8. First sitting compliance officer nominated to federal bench.
  9. Under CCPA is the biggest risk privacy or cyber security?
  10. Have you checked in on Trekkng Through Compliance? If not sample of this week’s exploration of Star Trek-the Original Series and compliance. Check out the following: Monday-Who Mourns for Adonais?; Tuesday-The Changeling; Wednesday-Mirror Mirror; Thursday-The Appleand Compliance; and Friday-The Doomsday Machine.  The podcast is available on multiple sites: the FCPA Compliance Report, iTunes, JDSupra, Megaphone,YouTube,  Spotifyand Corporate Compliance Insights,  Compliance Podcast Networkand now on the C-Suite Radio Network.

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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