News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance
Harry Cassin
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Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
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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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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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The U.K. Serious Fraud Office said Monday that three men and a woman were charged in Westminster Magistrates’ Court with two counts of conspiracy to corrupt.
The charges followed a two-year investigation into allegations of corruption at Swift Technical Energy Solutions Ltd, a Nigerian subsidiary of the Swift Group of companies, the SFO said.… Continue Reading
David Edmonds, a former vice president of California-based Control Components Inc., was jailed for four months at his sentencing Monday for violating the FCPA, followed by four months of home confinement.… Continue Reading
Here is the full FCPA disclosure from the Form 10-Q filed with the SEC by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on December 4:
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The Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board of Directors of the Company, which is composed solely of independent directors, is conducting an internal investigation into, among other things, alleged violations of the U.S.… Continue Reading
Last week I talked about the infinite scalability of compliance using cloud-based, enterprise solutions, and the basics of relational databases that let you pull out corresponding data.
But making sense of these vast databases is never easy and opens up the Pandora’s Box known as ‘analytics.’… Continue Reading
At the heart of a national tragedy lie a willing seller and a willing buyer.
An AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the most popular rifle in America, manufactured by Bushmaster, was sold through the distribution chain to a gun enthusiast, the mother of the shooter in Newtown, Connecticut.… Continue Reading