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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?
Podcast - Walking Tall
Podcast - The Seeds of Corruption
The Dark Patterns Behind Corporate Scandals
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 19, 2025, The Corruption in Spain Edition
Daily Compliance News: June 9, 2025, The Repugnant Edition
Daily Compliance News: June 6, 2025, The Good Punishment Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 28, 2025, The Moron Premium Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 24, 2025
SBR-Author’s Podcast: The Unseen Life of an Undercover Agent: A Conversation with Charlie Spillers
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 20, 2025, The What Could Go Wrong Edition
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
New guidelines governing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and enforcement effectively signal the official end of the proclaimed FCPA enforcement pause announced by President Trump earlier in the year, while...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The June 9 memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche instructs...more
DOJ’s new approach to FCPA enforcement presents some interesting opportunities — the headlines from the DOJ FCPA Guidance Memo will bring some significant changes but at the same time some things will not change. Here is my...more
On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the resumption of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement, ending the enforcement pause initiated by Executive Order 14209. In doing so, Deputy Attorney...more
Key Points - - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will resume investigations and enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), prioritizing, in part, FCPA actions involving cartels and transnational...more
On June 9, 2025, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice issued “Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)” (the “Memorandum”). The Memorandum...more
On June 10, 2025, the Deputy Attorney General issued the highly anticipated Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (“Guidelines”), complying with the directive in President...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this special edition of our award-winning monthly Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments newsletter summarizes the most...more
On August 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its new “Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program” (“DOJ Program”), a three-year initiative managed by DOJ’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section....more
On May 10, 2024, Romy Andrianarisoa, former Chief of Staff to the President of Madagascar, was convicted for soliciting bribes from Gemfields Group Ltd (Gemfields), a UK-based mining company specializing in rubies and...more
We asked our global white collar crime team for their views on key challenges in 2023 for in‑house investigations teams and white collar crime lawyers, and how to manage the associated risks. Here are their top ten....more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and case developments from the past month,...more
In Part 2 of Investigation Week, I take up the topic of your investigation protocol. Under Part 1, Section D. Confidential Reporting Structure and Investigation Process, it stated in part, Properly Scoped Investigation...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
Aerospace, defense, and government services – tighter control ahead - 2020 was an eventful year for companies in the aerospace, defense, and government services (ADG) sector. The industry saw arguably the largest...more
Contrary to some expectations, the Trump Administration Department of Justice imposed record penalties under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act from 2017 through 2020. But in each of those years, fewer and fewer new FCPA...more
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations and regulatory enforcement from the last three months. We commented last month that the scale of the impact of the...more
Mario Draghi presided over his final ECB meeting yesterday, with the central bank deciding to hold rates steady and let current stimulus measures play out for the time being. His departure (and the arrival of former IMF chief...more
The FCPA prohibits an offer, payment, promise or the authorization of a payment of money or anything of value (a/k/a bribery) to a foreign official for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business....more
We are now half way (hopefully) through what is predicted to be the largest amount of rain seen in one week by the city of Houston and its surrounding environs in the city’s recorded history. First and foremost, my deepest...more
The guidance issued by the DOJ in connection with the Pilot Program and recent declinations state that disclosure, remediation and cooperation are essential to any favorable resolution with the government. Six months...more
For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought an FCPA enforcement action premised entirely on a one-time charitable contribution. On September 20, 2016, the SEC announced a settled FCPA...more
The enforcement action against manufacturer Nu Skin Enterprises highlights the risks of making charitable donations in high-risk countries without conducting meaningful anticorruption due diligence....more
In a rare enforcement action, the SEC settled an FCPA enforcement action for $766,000 for a charitable donation of $154,000 to improperly influence a high-ranking Chiese Communist party official to prevent a provincial agency...more
If you ask members of a corporate board or senior executives about the cost of an FCPA enforcement action, they will candidly acknowledge all of the costs – fines, penalties, and professional costs (e.g. legal, accounting,...more