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
Shruti J. Shah
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
In this series I’m making the case that we should now think of freedom from corruption as a universal human right. John Locke, whose political philosophy is the foundation of modern rights thinking, certainly thought of corruption this way. He just called it by a different name. But just as interestingly, diverse thought systems […]
The International Centre for Collective Action (ICCA) at the Basel Institute on Governance is hosting a conference entitled “Collective Action: Evidence, Experience and Impact” on October 20 – 21, 2016 in Basel, Switzerland.
[…] now removed public access to the nation’s open UBO register. Other member states may follow suit. This judgment should be welcomed. Public UBO registers are an affront to the right to privacy. They also rarely have the intended effect of increasing effective enforcement. The decision favours controlled over unlimited systems of transparency. This will serve to […]
The International Center for Collective Action (ICCA) at the Basel Institute on Governance will hold its 3rd Anti-Corruption Collective Action Conference on November 14 – 15, 2018 in Basel, Switzerland.
As the leader of a private company, WeWork’s former CEO Adam Neumann clearly wasn’t subject to strong expense reporting requirements or conflicts of interest processes — he threw extravagant parties, routinely hired his family members and close friends, and engaged in numerous related-party transactions. But as Neumann and WeWork learned, those lax standards, often […]
[…] They want the biggest bribe to win the business, not the best price, product or service. The way to stop the bribery arms race is for all of the competitors to refuse to pay the bribes. This collective action is the key to fighting local and global graft. Acting collectively to resist corruption […]
[…] DOJ white paper. * * * The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 – 3733 was enacted in 1863 by a Congress concerned that suppliers of goods to the Union Army during the Civil War were defrauding the Army. The FCA provided that any person who knowingly submitted false claims to the […]
[…] private parties. When did that become a federal offense? Well, it happened this year when the Justice Department indicted California valve-maker Control Components Inc. (CCI) and six of its former employees. Here’s how. They were all charged under both the FCPA and the Travel Act (18 U.S. C. §1952). The latter prohibits traveling between […]
[…] FCPA settlement in history Thursday after the DOJ and SEC assessed penalties and disgorgement totalling $1.78 billion. Petrobras’s non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ included a criminal penalty of $853.2 million. An SEC administrative order required disgorgement of $933.5 million. All of the disgorgement was offset by payments Petrobras had already made to the settlement […]
The International Anti-Corruption Academy, located outside Vienna, Austria, is now accepting applications for its new International Master in Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collective Action program.
