As President Trump allows Russia to pay bounties for the Taliban to kill American soldiers, self-isolating (again) Jay and Tom have a special Thursday July 4^th edition to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week.

1.  The Novartis FCPA settlement. Tom has a 5 part series Part 1-Introduction, Part 2-the Bribery Schemes,Part 3-Internal Controls, Part 4-Fines, Penalties and Recidivism; Part 5-Data Analytics. Matt Kelly with Radical Compliance. Mike Volkov has a 3 part series on Corruption Crime and Compliance. Matt and Tom take a deep dive on Compliance into the Weeds. After all this Novatris pays another $678MM for corruption inside the US, see DOJ Press Release.
2. Why you need a plan for distributors under the FCPA. Bill Steinman opines in the FCPA Blog.
3. Alexion settles FCPA enforcement action. Dick Cassin breaks the story in the FCPA Blog.
4. Banks facing increased compliance risks. Mengqi Sun in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
5. The DOJ 2020 Update to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs with a new emphasis on middle management. Dylan Tokar and Jack Hegal in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
6. How badly did EY botch the Wirecard audit? Michael Rapaport guest posts on Francine McKenna’s The Dig.
7. CCPA went live on July 1. Were you ready? Jessica Wilburn on Navex Global’s Ethics Matters.
8. What is the role of compliance in the future of work? Neta Meidav in CCI.
9. On Compliance and Coronavirus, I was joined this week by Ryan Schonfeld to discuss IT and physical security in the era of Coronavirus; Cindy Flynn on employment law issues and Bill Sanderson business change in the era of Covid-19.
10. On the Compliance Podcast Network, Tom concluded his one month look at the role of HR in compliance on 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program and started a new month of looking at 3^rdThis week saw the following offerings: Monday-the parameters of attorney/client privilege; Tuesday-Miranda warnings in internal investigations. On July 1, the new month brought the new topic of 3^rd party risk management. Wednesday-the 3^rdParty risk management process; Thursday-the business rationale. The month of July is being sponsored by Affiliated Monitors. Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here.

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.