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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
Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you the compliance professional and the compliance stories you need to...more
On January 30, 2024, Transparency International (TI) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2023. The 2023 CPI suggests there has been limited progress in the global fight against corruption, with TI...more
In this week’s episode, we discuss the unique high-profile whistleblower case involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, describing corruption, bribery, and money laundering conspiracy involving PetroSaudi,...more
The end of the road for Roger Ng, the Goldman Sachs Investment Banker, who played a critical role in the Goldman Sachs 1 MDB Malaysia scandal, was not a pretty one. District Judge Margo Brodie gave Ng a severe sentence of...more
Bear with me for a second, but remember Presidential Candidate Romney’s statement in 2011 that “Corporations are people.” Starting with that premise, my so-called “Person” of the Year award for 2020 goes to, drumroll . . ....more
The breadth of Goldman Sachs’ corruption in the recent DOJ and SEC FCPA enforcement action underscored the important global goal of reducing corruption. It goes without saying – corruption has a pernicious impact on economic...more
Goldman Sachs now sits atop all charts with the largest US FCPA bribery penalty, totaling approximately $2.9 billion. The second largest is Ericsson’s 2019 FCPA settlement for $1 billion....more
The Justice Department finally closed out its investigation of Goldman Sachs’ massive bribery scheme involving Malaysia’s 1MDB fund. The case is now the largest in US FCPA history (based on its payment to DOJ and related US...more
Last week, Airbus SE (Airbus) settled a long-standing corruption scandal by agreeing to enforcement actions in three countries; France, the United Kingdom and the US. The matter involved a massive, worldwide, long running...more
CEP Magazine (January 2020) - The U.S. Department of Justice announced[1] a settlement of a civil forfeiture case against Low Take Jho, known as Jho Low, regarding assets allegedly bought with funds stolen from the...more
Goldman Sachs is reportedly in negotiations with federal prosecutors to resolve claims about its role in the Malaysian 1MDB scandal for upwards of $2 billion. A settlement—which “could include a guilty plea from Goldman’s...more
I thought Frosty was a good analogy to consider the disgraced Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s former partner Tim Leissner, as he is certainly back again. Yesterday, I begin a two-part blog post series on Leissner’s settlement with...more
The Grinch is certainly a title that could be an allegory with disgraced Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s former partner Tim Leissner about now. He was the lead Goldman Sachs banker who facilitated the firm’s work on bond offerings...more
Settlement Applies to $700 Million in Luxury Assets; Law Firms Obtain a Carve-Out - Last week, the Justice Department announced a massive settlement in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (“1MDB”) case, a matter implicating...more
As reported by Byron Tau and Aruna Viswanatha in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), “Jho Low, the businessman-turned-fugitive accused of masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud involving Malaysia’s sovereign-wealth fund, agreed...more
The political season is finally upon us, with the Iowa Caucuses starting the race to the White House. In honor of this election cycle commencement, we pay tribute the long and time-honored Southern tradition of midnight...more