Daily Compliance News: April 17, 2025, The Musk Fights BEE's Edition
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FCPA Compliance Report - Karen Woody on Elon Musk Attack on SEC Consent Decree
Compliance Into The Weeds - Elon Musk and Tesla Redux
This Week in FCPA-Episode 252 – the Musk and Bitcoin edition
Compliance into the Weeds-Elon Musk, Cryptocurrency and the SEC
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Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session....more
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We ring in 2025 with a new edition of Plugged In. In this edition, Bob Weiss contemplates the critical challenges facing Volkswagen. From missteps in strategy to fierce competition in China and unprecedented restructuring...more
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August saw two noteworthy Russia-related enforcement actions. First, a dual Russian-German national was arrested and charged with violating the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) when he allegedly procured microelectronics for...more
Elon Musk and Twitter brass struck a deal on Monday in which Musk will spend $44 billion to “take over the influential social network frequented by world leaders, celebrities and cultural trendsetters” and take it private....more
Tesla delivered $3.3 billion in profits during the first three months of 2022, a massive increase from the sub-$500M figure during the same period a year before. Still, the company also told investors on Wednesday that “it...more
Markets fell again on Friday after the November jobs report failed to hit predicted marks. Still, the news wasn’t all bad, as the numbers also showed that the country’s unemployment rate dropped and “the overall participation...more
Ailing e-truck startup Lordstown Motors found itself facing more challenges on Monday, as founder & CEO Steve Burns and CFO Julio Rodriguez resigned “after an investigation by the company’s board,” just weeks after the...more
A fiery, deadly Tesla crash outside of Houston over the weekend is prompting a federal probe of the company’s self-driving autonomous mode for “potential gaps in self-driving car technology.” ...more
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is “poised to become the first female Treasury secretary and one of few people to ever have wielded economic power from the White House, the Federal Reserve and the president’s cabinet.” If...more
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The Treasury Department announced on Monday that the U.S. budget deficit hit a new record in June–$864 billion—“as the federal government continued pumping money into the economy to prop up workers and businesses affected by...more
The U.S. market is improving, with employers adding 2.5 million jobs. For some perspective, “[t]he economy shed 22.1 million jobs combined in March and April.” So, we have a ways to go before we’ve fully recovered. ...more
The path for extradition of Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou is much clearer now that a Canadian court has ruled that “the conduct she is accused of in the United States, if proved, also constitutes a crime in Canada.” That...more
Industry Expert Insights - We reached out to one of our Lex Mundi partners and a well-known expert in the United Arab Emirates in the energy and legal industries to get his thoughts on the current energy climate. ...more
Newly released minutes from the Fed’s January meeting show central bankers preoccupied with global risks, including the still-growing economic impact of the coronavirus, while still taking a wait-and-see approach to any...more
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The first cuts from WeWork hit this week, and they’ll take the form of 2,400 employees around the world—some 20% of the struggling company’s workforce....more
We didn’t get flop sweat Zuck, but it was still a hot seat indeed for Facebook’s founder and CEO on the Hill yesterday, who fielded a wide range of questions from Libra to political freedom of expression on his platform....more
The Fed delivered on its expected quarter-point rate cut yesterday, the first decrease in short term rates since 2008. Fed Chair Powell cited “the implications of global developments for the economic outlook as well as muted...more
Samsung announced yesterday that it’s postponing the official mass-market introduction of its new foldable smart phone (originally set for the end of the week) based on reports that the pricey device has been malfunctioning....more
Jobs report Friday again. Which, after February’s dismal numbers, is carrying extra importance today. We’ll be keeping an eye on US manufacturing, among other things. Here’s what to watch....more