White Collar Crimes, Due Diligence, Corporate Culture

Curiosity may kill the cat, but is indispensable for workplace health and safety

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/8/2025

“Curiosity killed the cat” is a proverb “used to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation” (Wikipedia) or is an idiom “said to warn someone not to ask too many questions about something” (Cambridge...more

Lessons Learned from the Goldman Sachs FCPA Enforcement Settlement (Part III of III)

The Volkov Law Group on 10/27/2020

Goldman Sachs has a new leadership role – unfortunately, it is for corruption. It would be a serious mistake to characterize or describe the Goldman corruption scheme as the result of a few, bad actors. Instead, Goldman...more

Monitoring– Moving from Reactive to Proactive

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 11/13/2018

This week I am running a special five-part sponsored podcast series with Vincent DiCianni, founder and President of Affiliated Monitors, Inc. (AMI) and Eric Feldman, Senior Vice President of AMI. ...more

Goldman Sachs, 1MDB and Initial Lessons Learned

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 11/8/2018

This week I have been considering the new developments in the long-running 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal. These developments include a guilty plea by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Goldman Sachs) banker in...more

ISO 37001: Risk Assessments, Employees, and Due Diligence Requirements (Part IV of V)

The Volkov Law Group on 10/19/2017

In Part IV of my series on ISO 37001, I examine requirements relating to risk assessments, design of policies and procedures, and due diligence requirements. Section 4.5 sets out requirements for conducting risk...more

The Objective of Due Diligence: To Protect Your Culture

The Volkov Law Group on 9/7/2017

There has been so much attention paid to due diligence. We have reams and reams of articles highlighting the importance of due diligence. In addition, numerous vendors of due diligence services and technologies fill the...more