News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance
Harry Cassin
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Andy Spalding
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Jessica Tillipman
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Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
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Elizabeth K. Spahn
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Cody Worthington
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Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Shruti J. Shah
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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A pig farm outside Las Vegas used to receive 20 tons of food waste a day from restaurants and casinos. But now the Strip is closed, and the farmers are struggling to keep their animals fed.… Continue Reading
Eighteenth century France gave us “doux commerce” — a philosophical notion that commerce can make our interactions softer, gentler, and more humane. Might 21st century France now give us “doux compliance?”… Continue Reading
Job Title: VP Business Unit Compliance
Location: New York, New York or Chicago, Illinois
Employer: Cushman & Wakefield… Continue Reading
In Newport, Oregon, police are asking citizens to stop calling 9-1-1 to report that they’ve run out of toilet paper. The UK’s sewage system is in danger of clogging from wet wipes and other improvised loo roll substitutes.… Continue Reading
Two recent rulings by France’s Commission of Sanctions provide insight into which aspects of the transparency, anti-corruption and modernization law known as Sapin II the Agence Française Anticorruption focuses on during its inspections.… Continue Reading
I thought I was going to be skiing down a mountain now. Instead I am sitting at my kitchen table in London pretty much hooked on BBC, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.… Continue Reading
In the first federal action against fraud involving the coronavirus outbreak, the DOJ obtained a temporary restraining order against a website selling a bogus vaccine.… Continue Reading
The FCPA Blog recently published the Top 40 FCPA penalties of all time. If you look at the companies that paid the largest penalties, you’ll see that four of the top ten are telecom companies: Ericsson and Telia (both from Sweden), Mobile TeleSystems (Russia), and Vimpelcom (Netherlands).… Continue Reading
To a 19th Century “man on the street,” a road was a place not just to move but also to gather. It was common space that belonged to everyone. Like how we think today about our parks.… Continue Reading
While the coronavirus pandemic was just starting to take hold in Europe and the United Kingdom, I was overseas. I learned that someone in a building where I had a meeting had tested positive for Covid-19.… Continue Reading
Job Title: Anti-Corruption & Trade Controls Counsel, M&A and Integrations
Location: Remote
Employer: Cognizant Technologies… Continue Reading
We should all anticipate — with optimism but also serious preparation — a post-quarantine return to business, and appreciate that a return to “normal” business will actually mean in practice a period of frenetic efforts to make up for lost time and lost revenue, with accordingly severe demands on compliance professionals.… Continue Reading