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Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor

Andy Spalding
Senior Editor

Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor

Bill Steinman
Senior Editor

Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large

Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus

Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor

Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor

Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor

Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor

Bill Waite
Contributing Editor

Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor

Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor

Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor

Is corruption a root cause of trade secret thefts?

Even by today’s larcenous standards, last week’s indictment of a former Apple software engineer for theft of trade secrets is shocking. The DOJ accuses Weibo Wang of stealing the heart and soul of Apple’s self-driving car technology, including the architecture for an autonomous system and the “entire autonomy source code.”… Continue Reading

Board-level ‘risk committees’ are great, unless they destroy the company

An alarming aspect of the March meltdown that took out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank is that each had a stand-alone risk committee. We need to know what went wrong because risk committees are now commonly found at “most large companies,” according to a Big Four audit partner I talked to, and are assumed to protect against imprudent governance and management.… Continue Reading

FCPA charge against Portuguese citizen dismissed again

On May 17, 2023, Paulo J.D.C. Casqueiro-Murta, a Portuguese citizen extradited to Houston in July 2021, was granted dismissal by the federal district court in Houston for the second time of his 2019 indictment that charged him with one count of FCPA conspiracy and three related money-laundering counts.… Continue Reading