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Sessions Changes the US DOJ’s Position on Prosecutorial Discretion Involving Marijuana in States Permitting Use – But is that a...

Fisher Phillips on 1/5/2018

As predicted by Politico, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other sources, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions today rescinded the 2013 Cole Memorandum “Guidance Regarding Marijuana Enforcement,” which has...more

Whom Should You Suspend During an Internal Investigation?

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 10/27/2015

Whom to suspend during any Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation is always a delicate question to answer. Unfortunately there is never an easy answer. As the Volkswagen (VW) emission-testing scandal continues to...more

Highway 61 Revisited Week – Like a Rolling Stone and the Tenex Matter

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/8/2015

Last week was the 50th anniversary of the seminal Bob Dylan album, Highway 61 Revisited. It has always been my favorite Dylan album so to honor its release in 1965, this week I will use one song as an introduction into the...more

SEC Promotes Value of Cooperating Witnesses

The Volkov Law Group on 8/20/2015

Change does not occur overnight. The SEC, as much as any other government agency, has touted its hiring of former prosecutors and use of aggressive investigation tactics. I always took those statements with a grain of salt –...more

Cymbeline – Doing Virtue and FCPA Compliance

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/13/2015

Commentators still level the hue and cry that it is somehow the fault of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that companies continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...more

Social Media Week Part I – Using Social Media In Your Compliance Program

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/3/2015

Welcome to Part I of Social Media Week. I recently did a webinar, hosted by The Network, on the use of social media in your Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance program. The response was as great as almost any...more

George Carlin and Erga Omnes: the Petrobras Bribery Scandal Expands

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/22/2015

On this date in 2008 George Carlin died. If you grew up in the late 1960s or early 1970s and you had anti-parental or anti-establishment inklings, which of course all teenagers do, you knew about George Carlin. In the early...more

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