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
Daily Compliance News: May 12, 2025, The Corruption in the Broad Daylight Edition
Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance...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
There were recently two significant speeches by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials at the American Bar Association National Institute on White Collar Crime. The first was by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. The second...more
In the first major action of 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with a publicly traded global software company for alleged violations of the...more
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) enforcement continues to slowly rebound from pre-pandemic levels. In 2023, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) resolved 13 corporate FCPA...more
The call, email or tip comes into your office; an employee reports suspicious activity somewhere across the globe. That activity might well turn into a FCPA issue for your company. As the CCO, it will be up to you to begin...more
This week we are taking a deep dive into the SAP Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. In it, SAP agreed to pay the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approximately...more
When it comes to FCPA enforcement and expectations, DOJ has moved the goalposts. Some would argue that DOJ has been consistent all along. The truth, like most issues, lies somewhere between the extremes....more
The Justice Department’s FCPA enforcement record for 2024 was slow. This trend was unexpected, contrary to my own predictions and of various other prognosticators. It is hard to explain why this slowdown occurred....more
Summary - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has created the International Corporate Anti-Bribery initiative (ICAB), which aims to strengthen the United States’ global efforts in combating corruption through enhanced...more
On November 28–30, 2023, the American Conference Institute’s 40th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), held in Washington, D.C., brought together prosecutors, regulators, corporate...more
DOJ announced two recent FCPA settlements with U.K. based reinsurance brokers involving a long-running bribery scheme involving two Ecuadoran state-owned insurance companies. While DOJ has had a slow year in FCPA...more
The Justice Department has brought three corporate FCPA enforcement actions in 2023 (if you include the Ericsson DPA breach settlement). With its recent announcement of a declination under the Corporate Enforcement Policy,...more
Last week, Albemarle Corporation (Albemarle), a publicly traded specialty chemicals manufacturing company headquartered in North Carolina, agreed to pay more than $218 million to resolve investigations by the U.S. Department...more
Albemarle Corporation (Albemarle), a specialty chemicals manufacturing company located in Charlotte, North Carolina, agreed to pay more than $218 million to settle FCPA investigations with DOJ and the SEC stemming from...more
The Department of Justice has been relatively quiet this year in bringing corporate FCPA enforcement actions and settlements. Aside from the Ericsson breach of its Deferred Prosecution Agreement, the Corficocolombiana...more
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 13th West Coast Forum on FCPA Enforcement and Compliance returns for another exciting year, providing the opportunity to connect with decision-makers from your industry, gather...more
The Justice Department has been pushing its voluntary self-disclosure program and changes to its Corporate Enforcement Policy, in an attempt to increase FCPA enforcement cooperation. The Golden Ring for every company facing...more
Last week at the American Bar Association’s annual National Institute on White Collar Crime in Miami, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite highlighted several new facets of the...more
The Justice Department has taken steps to implement its new compliance compensation requirement announced in its Corporate Enforcement Policy revisions. With little fanfare, the Danske Bank $2 billion settlement with the...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 enforcement developments from the past...more
The Department of Justice announced revisions to its Corporate Enforcement Policy (“CEP”) yet again in order to promote voluntary disclosures by Companies that discover potential wrongdoing. DOJ’s latest action demonstrated...more
On January 17, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) rolled out revisions to its Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) aimed at incentivizing companies to voluntarily self-disclose misconduct and to cooperate with government...more
Eager to enlist corporations as “allies in [its] fight against crime,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, expansions to the Criminal Division’s corporate enforcement policy, now the Criminal...more
The Justice Department continues its enforcement “silence” with no major corporate prosecutions announced this year. It is an interesting question but it appears that the wheels have ground to a halt, with one major...more