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In prior posts for the FCPA Blog, I discussed how compliance officers are subject matter experts for the compliance program and why the board-adopted company code of ethics is a fundamental ingredient of the compliance program.… Continue Reading
In the prior post, I mentioned the role of boards of directors in adopting the company’s code of ethics. In this post, I’ll talk about the critical reasons for board-backed codes of ethics.… Continue Reading
It was a relief to read in a recent post on the FCPA Blog that compliance officers aren’t crazy, but are in a tough job, always caught between flawed human nature and meeting the ideals of effective management and business integrity.… Continue Reading
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the DOJ’s three-year investigation of Walmart in Mexico has uncovered little or no evidence of major bribery, and that the case may eventually be resolved without criminal charges and only a fine.… Continue Reading
In my prior post for the FCPA Blog, I asked two questions about the unfolding VW scandal.
One of them is already on the way to an answer: What happened to the whistleblowers and the compliance officers at VW?… Continue Reading
The chief of Volkswagen USA admitted the company screwed up, and the global CEO has resigned. Prosecutors and regulators, along with aggrieved buyers of its diesel vehicles, are lining up for retribution and justice.… Continue Reading
Michael Horn, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, said Tuesday: “Our company was dishonest… we have totally screwed up.”
VW rigged U.S. car emission tests by installing software designed to cheat.… Continue Reading
It’s time for the compliance community to be hopeful. In the same month, the DOJ announced it was hiring a compliance expert to help make charging decisions, and an administrative law judge refused to allow the SEC to sanction a former Wells Fargo Advisors compliance officer because doing so would make her a scapegoat.… Continue Reading
We’ve been discussing on the FCPA Blog how to attract more talented young people to the compliance field. Here’s a formula: Start with a boot camp for undergraduates and then help them get internships in a compliance program.… Continue Reading
Is this one of the biggest scandals ever, not by money but by scope and the billions of ordinary folk affected all at once? From a quick search of the FCPA Blog archives (see the menu bar above), it looks like it.… Continue Reading
I don’t expect to be inspired at compliance conferences. The big name “motivational” speakers don’t move me. I prefer the stories of the everyday hardworking compliance officers.
Thus, I was taken up by a moment of true, unscripted inspiration that happened at the HCCA Annual conference.… Continue Reading
During the past month, I’ve been in London at the SCCE European initiative conference and last week at the Florida convention of the Health Care Compliance Association. The month has been an opportunity to gain some new perspective on the community of global compliance officers.… Continue Reading