Most compliance practitioners are aware of the use of corporate monitors. There are many benefits to the use of a corporate monitor for a company coming out of a lengthy Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation. Some of these benefits can include increased corporate awareness of compliance and the integration of best practices into a company’s compliance program. A corporate monitor can also boost shareholder, employee and public confidence in a company which has had a lengthy FCPA investigation and enforcement action.
One of the more vexing questions which a General Counsel or Chief Compliance Officer may face is how to select and interact with a corporate monitor? There is very little helpful guidance for compliance practitioners on this subject. However, one such resource has arisen in the past year which is welcome addition for the compliance practitioner, it is “The Monitor” and it is issued by Artifice Financial Forensic Services, LLC, and its head, John Hanson. Hanson is a CPA, CFE and, furthermore, he’s a former FBI Agent, who also publishes a very useful blog entitled “The Fraud Guy”.
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