Wicked Coin: The "Fat Leonard" Scandal
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: Deep Dive into The Gunvor FCPA Settlement
Episode 307 -- Sanctions Enforcement Review and Predictions for 2024
Episode 300 -- Deep Dive into DOJ FCPA Settlement with Two U.K. Reinsurance Companies for Bribery in Ecuador
Episode 296 -- Deep Dive into Clear Channels SEC Settlement of FCPA Violations
Episode 294 -- Catch Up on OFAC Enforcement: 3M and Emigrant Bank
The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network: An In-Depth Conversation
Season 2 - Episode 2 - A Whistleblowers Nightmare: The Uncovering of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad Scandal
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Varsity Blues Reversals Turn DOJ Red
Corruption, Crime, and Compliance - The Ericsson FCPA DPA Breach Settlement
Episode 258 -- Deep Dive into ABB FCPA Settlement
Corruption Crime & Compliance - Deep Dive into the ABB FCPA Case
Life with GDPR - The ABB Enforcement Action from a UK Perspective
The Corruption Files - Episode 15 - The ABB Settlement
The Line Between Gift Giving and Bribery
The Corruption Files - Episode 14 - Walmart with Tom Fox and Michael DeBernardis
Compliance Into The Weeds - Lafarge and the Cost of Moral Bankruptcy
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 21: "Interview with Drago Kos of the OECD Working Group on Bribery"
The Justice Insiders: FIFA Corruption Trial – Will the Feds Score Another Goal?
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 5 - Doing Business Overseas: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more
In the rapidly evolving financial landscape, governments worldwide are intensifying their focus on compliance in Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) efforts for financial institutions. Trade-Based Money...more
Regulators and enforcement authorities in Australia intensified their efforts to curb white-collar crime in 2023. They targeted fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, cybercrime, and corruption across multiple industries,...more
Commercial bribery enforcement also became more active, as the authorities marked the 30th anniversary of the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law. The revision of the PRC Anti-Espionage Law raised some concerns about national...more
Economic crime has risen to such a level that UK Finance, a trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector, considers financial fraud to be a “national security threat”. Over £750,000,000 was stolen from...more
As the Russia – Ukraine war rages on, one outcome so far is clear: the Western nations remain aligned and united to confront Russian aggression. The West’s synchronized, roll-out of economic and trade sanctions against...more
On Oct. 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the creation of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to tackle investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of cryptocurrency. As the non-fungible...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to...more
Court Reinstates Life Insurance Company's Fraud Claims Over Defunct Laboratory - A New Jersey state appeals court reinstated Aetna Life Insurance Company’s (Aetna) fraud claims against the minority owners of the now defunct...more
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations and regulatory enforcement from the last three months. We commented last month that the scale of the impact of the...more
Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. In this episode Matt and Tom go into the weeds to...more
Compliance Today (August 2020) - The Department of Justice’s Criminal Fraud division indicted six Texas-based owners and marketers for a scheme to defraud TRICARE and the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in more than $14...more
Ride-hailing giant Uber laid off 350 workers on Monday as part of an ongoing effort to pare costs that now represents 1000 jobs cut since July....more
Enforcement authorities throughout the United States and the Americas continue to aggressively investigate fraud and corruption across the region in the third quarter of 2019. Below, we highlight some recent developments and...more
This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including a review of the first year of GDPR enforcement, analysis of...more
In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments in the past month, with links to primary...more
The Polycom and Eletrobras FCPA enforcement actions present several important lessons for Chief Compliance Officers. Tom Fox explores....more
Last week Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. paid a high price for its and its predecessors failure to comply with the terms and conditions of 2012 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (the “2012 DPA”). Biomet, having originally paid $23...more
I continue my exploration of the use of data analytics in a best practices compliance program. Today we look at how data analytics can be used to help detect or prevent bribery and corruption where the primary sales force...more
Despite a decline in enforcement actions by the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the first half of 2015 has continued to highlight the relevance and ever-evolving effects of the...more
On August 12, 2015, Vincente Garcia (former head of Latin American sales for SAP International, Inc.) pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). In addition to...more
This installment of MoFo’s Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments highlights important Department of Justice (DOJ) personnel changes, an increase in government resources being dedicated to FCPA enforcement...more