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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] 2025 Board & Compliance Committee Conference - February 24th - 25th, Phoenix, AZ

The Board & Compliance Committee Conference is designed specifically to educate board members on best practices and recommendations for establishing and maintaining an effective compliance program. The OIG-HHS will discuss...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Tone at The Top Week: Part 2 – Ten Things A CEO Can Do

In corporate compliance, a guiding principle is the foundation for success or failure: Tone at the Top. This phrase encapsulates the role of senior executives—particularly the CEO—in setting the ethical standards, cultural...more

McCarter & English, LLP

DOJ Launches Pilot Program to Encourage Reporting of Criminal Activity

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a pilot program to encourage potential whistleblowers to report criminal activity and cooperate with government investigations in exchange for substantial monetary payouts in the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] 2023 Board & Audit Committee Compliance Conference - October 23rd - 24th, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Discover today's best practices for your role in healthcare compliance oversight - The Office of Inspector General of Health and Human Services expects healthcare board members, board audit/compliance committee members,...more

StoneTurn

5 Tips For Meeting DOJ’s New CCO Certification Requirements

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The DOJ has signaled that CEO and CCO certifications will become a staple of all corporate settlement agreements. Critics worry CEOs and CCOs face undue personal liability and argue it will dissuade CCOs from accepting the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Death of dos Santos and Leadership at the Top

José Eduardo dos Santos, who served nearly four decades as Angola’s president, died on Friday in Spain where he had been living in self-imposed exile. According to his New York Times (NYT) obituary, “he was widely accused of...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

The Sky Will Not Fall with New Justice Department CEO / CCO Certifications; Instead, the Sun Will Shine

Despite an industry uproar, the sky is NOT falling with the U.S. Department of Justice (“DoJ”) requirement that chief executive officers (“CEOs”) and chief compliance officers (“CCOs”) certify that their compliance programs...more

McGuireWoods LLP

The Perils of Global Expansion: World’s Largest Ad Agency Sanctioned $19 Million for FCPA Violations, Insufficient Controls

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Global expansion without adequate controls is asking for trouble. That’s the lesson of a $19 million settlement between WPP, the world’s largest advertising agency, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Why the Board of Directors Need an Investigation Protocol

Many companies have an investigation protocol in place when a potential compliance or other legal issue arises. However, many Boards of Directors do not have the same rigor when it comes to an investigation, which should be...more

Oberheiden P.C.

A CEO's Guide to FCPA Compliance

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- A tone-at-the-top business culture with CEO leadership is a critical component of effective anti-corruption and anti-bribery policy implementation. - CEO leadership helps set an example for lower management and company...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Executives Acting in Bad Faith and the Role of the Board

A piece by Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog had some very stark language. He quoted from the Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson) 6-K filing for the following, “While the Company had a compliance program and a supporting...more

The Volkov Law Group

Ericsson’s Pervasive Bribery Conduct: The Toxic Mix of Senior Executive Involvement and Third Party Corruption (Part II of II)

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Ericsson’s FCPA settlement is in the books (not the books and records).  But it casts a significant shadow across the FCPA landscape.  A pervasive and systemic culture of bribery is defined to reflect senior executive...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

This Week in FCPA- Episode 52, for the week ending May 12, the Firing the Investigators Edition

1. What is the real risk in a FCPA enforcement action? See Mike Volkov’s post in Corruption, Crime and Compliance. 2. FIFA fires its lead internal investigators for doing their job investigating. See Tom’s article in...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Four Essential Leadership Behaviors

The role of any leader should be engagement, engagement and then more engagement. By understanding the needs of your key stakeholders and incorporating that into your solution or initiative you will have your team on board...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Will Culture Change at Uber Before It’s Too Late?

What happens when a company delivers a superior product or service which is enthusiastically embraced by the consuming public, has a contented, if not equally enthusiastic, public facing work force and the business itself...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

New Attorney General Issues Guidance on Corporate Compliance Programs

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Fraud Section has published new guidance for corporate entities on corporate compliance programs. The guidance, titled, “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (Compliance Program...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

When Will Shareholders Force Boards to Do Compliance?

Today we honor one of the most iconic moments of World War II (WWII) and one of the most famous photographs of all time, that of the Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. Marine...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Revenge of the Whistle-blower: Possible Consequences of Compliance Failures

In a company with a robust compliance culture, potential whistleblowers can express their concerns without fear of retribution. By contrast, the penalty for a culture that silences whistleblowers just got steeper. Companies...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance Expertise Needed on the Board

This week I have been exploring the different types compliance committee’s which an organization can utilize to help effect a best practices compliance program. I have written about compliance committee’s at the Board of...more

Dechert LLP

FCPA Enforcement Action Highlights Risks for the Financial Services Industry and Individual Executives

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New York-based hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (the “Hedge Fund”) agreed to pay approximately $412 million to resolve charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Department of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Want to Work in Compliance – Learn How to Read a Balance Sheet

One of the most interesting tag lines I heard at Compliance Week 2016 was the following, if you want to work in my compliance department; you need to learn how to read a balance sheet. I thought that single line encapsulated...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Creating Trust to Effect Compliance Change

One of the ongoing battles for any Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) or compliance practitioner is that the business folks usually view compliance as the Land of No; most often populated by Dr. No him or herself. You will have...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Georgia On My Mind – How Does Compliance Enhance Shareholder Value?

Can you get a sense of place from listening to a song? In an article in the Financial Times (FT), entitled “The Life of a Song – Georgia On My Mind”, Mike Hobart wrote that when you “combine Stuart Gorrell’s lyrics with Hoagy...more

The Volkov Law Group

5 Signs Your Anti-Corruption Compliance Program is Suffering from “Tunnel Vision”

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Many companies, depending on the industry, have implemented anti-corruption compliance programs. Some of the programs meet the standard for an “effective” anti-corruption compliance program. There is a vast difference between...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Great Structures Week IV – The Gothic Cathedral and Compliance Incentives

I continue my Great Structures Week with focus on great structural engineering and its innovations in the medieval world – that being the Gothic Cathedral. I am drawing these posts from The Great Courses offering, entitled...more

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