LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: 10 Core Principles for Effective Internal Investigations with Michelle Peirce
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 23, 2025 the Pardon in the Wind? Edition
Fox on Podcasting: Harnessing the Power of Niche
Daily Compliance News: July 17, 2025, The COSO Yanked Edition
All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 9, 2025, The TACO Don Caves Again Edition
RICO Section 1962(b): Acquisition or Maintenance of Control Over Legitimate Enterprises — RICO Report Podcast
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 28, 2025
The Dark Patterns Behind Corporate Scandals
FCPA Compliance Report: Fraud Risk Management - Insights and Experiences with Peter Schablik
Episode 374 -- Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance
Daily Compliance News: June 20, 2025, The Death of the Business Card Edition
Understanding the DOJ's Recent Corporate Enforcement Policy Changes
U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity may be at a temporary standstill, but that should not mean much for the day-to-day operations of global anti-corruption compliance programs. If the Department of...more
The various and elusive tactics used by Russia to evade global sanctions and export controls have grown increasingly sophisticated over the last several months, putting the onus on multinational entities to become equally...more
If companies operated with perfect governance mechanisms and controls, they would all be ready for the coming sanctions enforcement storm. However, that is not the corporate reality. Even after several companies are the...more
The evolution in the global economy is raising challenges for anti-corruption compliance. In response to economic dislocations and disruptions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine, businesses...more
Compliance professionals are always looking for ways to collaborate and support internal business partners. Through the years, compliance professionals have devoted significant energy to building partnerships with the...more
While GDP and worldwide economies shrink under the continuing impact of COVID-19, government budgets have expanded to support healthcare responses to the pandemic and social-welfare in response to growing unemployment and...more
After a lengthy sentencing hearing in federal court in San Francisco, Bumble Bee CEO Chris Lischewski was sentenced to 40 months in prison for his involvement in a tuna price-fixing conspiracy. The judge rejected...more
Compliance has been pushed more to the forefront in anti-money laundering (AML). As banking institutions, financial institutions and the financial services industries continue to tighten and strengthen AML controls, criminals...more
CEP Magazine (February 2020) - Chris Lischewski, former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods, was found guilty of price-fixing by a jury on Dec. 3. The conviction caps a years-long investigation into price-fixing by the canned tuna...more
Yesterday, I looked at some of the more creative bribery schemes identified in 2019 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions. They were schemes involving distributors, joint ventures (JVs) and fraudulent...more
Global companies are paying greater attention to criminal antitrust risks – and with good reason. We often dwell on the impact to a company of a major FCPA investigation. A global criminal antitrust investigation often in...more
I am in a multipart series on the Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments (Framework). Every compliance professional of any stripe needs to read, understand and implement some of the key concepts of the Framework into your...more
On of the most well known of all criminal procedural rights was established by the US Supreme Court on this day in 1966, when the Court handed down its Miranda v. Arizona decision. It established the legal principle that all...more
There is no question that OFAC continues to dominate the enforcement landscape this year. OFAC has provided plenty of warning and notice to global companies, especially those in the manufacturing and industrial sectors....more
As any compliance officer would tell you within the first few minutes of meeting them, regulations are becoming more prevalent and more complex.” A technological solution is now almost mandated from this complexity....more
OFAC’s new framework guidance for sanctions compliance programs stretched into new territory with its risk assessment requirement. This new approach reflects OFAC’s recent aggressive enforcement programs....more
I recently had the chance to visit with Travis Miller, General Counsel (GC), and I discuss how the regulatory requirements of the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FARs) impact access to markets and supply chain compliance....more
Next week, in a five-part podcast series sponsored by Assent Compliance Inc. (Assent), I explore market access for supply chain. During the course of this series, I visit with several members of the Assent team to introduce...more
In the bigger than big category there are now approximately 35 days or just over 800 hours left before a no-deal Brexit is set to take effect. To say there is disarray in the British political establishment over this upcoming...more
Yesterday I began a two-part series on the Department of Justice (DOJ’s) “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (Evaluation) posted on the Fraud Section website late last week. The document is an 11-part list of...more
Sometimes I get inspired when writing blog posts and sometimes I get on a roll. It is a bit of both this week and today, as previously this week, I have focused on Department of Justice (DOJ) pronouncements on their view of...more
Welcome to my second installment in this month’s classic monster movie festival. This year I am revisiting the Frankenstein series and today I want to explore and, indeed, honor the second in the series but what many viewers...more