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Fraud Whistleblowers Corporate Governance

Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Bre-X Mining Scandal: Part 6-A Guide for the 2024 Compliance Professional (Part 2)

Today we conclude a multipart blog post series exploring one of the biggest corporate scandals of the 1990s, the Bre-X mining scandal. In our most recent blog post we explored the foundational lessons from the Bre-X scandal...more

Conn Kavanaugh

“Hot” Tips for Internal Investigations

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An increased government interest in rooting out corporate fraud, coupled with new theories of corporate and individual liability, have made state and federal investigations almost a way of life for large and small companies...more

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP

The Double-Edged Impact of AI Compliance Algorithms on Whistleblowing

As the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) compliance and fraud detection algorithms within corporations and financial institutions continues to grow, it is crucial to consider how this technology has a twofold...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

Anticorruption Enforcement and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Trends to Track in 2024

This is the seventh in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Double Jeopardy for Double Counting? CFTC and FTC Both Scrutinize Fraud in Carbon Markets

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have recently and aggressively signaled their intent to ramp up enforcement activity regarding the use of carbon offsets to make environmental...more

Bracewell LLP

Second Circuit Reinforces High Pleading Burden for Director Duty of Oversight Claims

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In Welch v. Havenstein, No. 13-2648-cv, 2014 WL 322055 (2d Cir. Jan. 30, 2014) (summary order), aff’g In re SAIC Inc. Derivative Litigation, 948 F. Supp. 2d 366 (S.D.N.Y. 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

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