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Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Sittenfeld v. United States – Campaign Contributions as Crimes?
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 19, 2025, The Corruption in Spain Edition
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 24, 2025
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Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
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Daily Compliance News: May 19, 2025, The Definition of Corruption Edition
Compliance into the Weeds: Leaving on a (Qatari) Jet Plane
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 61 - A Call to Service: From Public Duty to Spiritual Advocacy
As Saudi Arabia emerges as a global investment destination, it is essential for foreign investors, financial institutions, and legal and compliance professionals to understand the Kingdom’s anti-corruption initiatives,...more
We recently had a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action that reminded me that everything old is new again in anti-corruption compliance. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) FCPA enforcement action...more
Last week, Albemarle Corporation (Albemarle), agreed to pay more than $218 million to resolve investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into violations of the...more
This is not your typical FCPA enforcement action Lessons Learned column. Instead, Ericsson’s breach of its DPA presents a laundry list of internal investigation errors – as a practitioner in this area, this is the nightmare...more
The broad and pervasive scope of Glencore’s bribery conduct is obvious. The scope of its misconduct reflects Glencore’s fatal culture and commitment to profits at any and all cost. Glencore’s board and senior executive team...more
What is Bribery and Corruption? A major key to running an ethical and compliant company, is to ensure that bribery and corruption is properly managed in all its forms. In doing so, companies can strengthen their ESG...more
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the change in presidential administrations in the United States in January 2021, US enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) declined in 2021. However, we...more
At the 2022 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute Dr. Jan Sprafke, Head of Compliance, Europe and Latin America and Jad Mhanna, Regional Compliance Officer at Ericsson will be leading a session entitled Cultural Divide...more
C5's 15th International Conference on Anti-Corruption London will take place November 2 – 3, 2021 in Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge, London. Join your peers for the IN-PERSON reunion of the legal and compliance...more
Our Basic Academies are ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience who are ready to support, enhance and manage a comprehensive compliance program. They are taught by compliance professionals,...more
Deutsche Bank’s ethics and compliance function faces numerous challenges. Deutsche Bank has a storied record of scandals, government enforcement actions and failures to abide by prior deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs)....more
When reviewing a major enforcement case, I always ask two basic questions: What was the role of Board and senior management in the failure, and how did they fail to exercise proper oversight and ensure compliance?...more
On December 6, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to resolve allegations that multinational telecommunications company Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or...more
I conclude my short exploration of the recent set of articles in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) White Collar crime special section. Today, I want to look at an article by Mary Jo white, entitled “What I’ve Learned About...more
I have long predicted that corporate board members are in for a rude awakening. Corporate boards have to improve their ability and knowledge surrounding supervision and monitoring of a company’s ethics and compliance...more
The General Motors (GM) 2018 Sustainability Report is out. It reports on GM’s progress toward an era of safer, better and more sustainable personal mobility by transforming how General Motors approaches every aspect of its...more
One of the biggest headaches for companies conducting business overseas still remains bribery and corruption. The grey area of what is deemed a fair gift, meal or payment against what might be constituted a bribe is a...more
NAVEX Global recently released an important compliance report – 2019 Definitive Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Report. NAVEX’s report contains a number of interesting findings and brings together several current...more
The day of reckoning was here for KMPG and I do not think that anyone could have imagined how bad it would be for the firm. Last week the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week that KPMG was preparing to pay up to $50...more
If businesses were to understand that if they engage in bribery and corruption, the impact is much larger than simply the bribe they pay for the business opportunity. It can literally ruin the lives of many more people....more
The MTS FCPA enforcement action stands as one of several significant prosecutions in FCPA history. The breadth and depth of MTS’ corruption scheme stands as another example of systemic bribery cultures. The details of the...more
This year is the 200thanniversary of the birth of Wuthering Heights’ author, Emily Brontë. While her sister Charlotte received more acclaim as an author, I found Wuthering Heights to appeal much more greatly to my dark side. ...more
Corporations experience numerous tests of character. Perhaps one of the most important is how the company responds when facing potential misconduct. ...more
Corporate commitment to speak up cultures is suffering. The Ethics and Compliance Initiative’s recent Global National Business Ethics Survey contained a critical finding – corporate instances of retaliation against employee...more
I have finished up my week in Brazil and I wanted to end this week’s Brazil focused blog posts with some final thoughts and observations on the country’s burgeoning compliance scene....more