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10 Important Facts About FinCEN’s Whistleblower Program

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is one of a handful of federal authorities that have adopted whistleblower programs focused on facilitating enforcement in hard-to-target areas. While FinCEN focuses its...more

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How to Include Reports to Managers in Internal Reporting

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Compliance officers know that internal reports are the fuel upon which your compliance program runs – the more reports you receive, the better you understand the compliance issues within your organization and the faster you...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New CFTC Advisory Incentivizes Self-Reporting, Cooperation, and Remediation

The Advisory sets out factors that the Enforcement Division will use to rate self-reporting and cooperation. This rating places a company or individual within a “tier” used to determine the Mitigation Credit amount available....more

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SEC Doesn’t Like Secret Hush Money Deals Either: Former Head of WWE Settles Charges for Not Disclosing Confidential Settlements...

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On January 10, 2025, the SEC announced settled charges against Vince McMahon, former Executive Chair and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., for signing two settlement agreements without disclosure to the board, anyone...more

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SEC charges Entergy with violation of internal accounting controls requirements

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At the end of last year, the SEC announced settled charges against Entergy Corporation, a Louisiana-based utility company with shares traded on the NYSE, for failure to maintain internal accounting controls adequate to ensure...more

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DOJ Releases Updated Version of Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs Guidelines

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On September 23, 2024, DOJ announced updates to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidelines (Guidance). The updates are the latest in a series of updates (including in 2019, 2020, and 2023) since DOJ first...more

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DOJ Updates Its Corporate Compliance Programs Guidance

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On September 23, 2024, the Criminal Division of the U.S Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance (“September 2024 Guidance), last updated in March 2023....more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

DOJ Unveils Whistleblower Rewards Program: What Every Business Needs to Know

The Department of Justice has launched the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program to fight corporate crime. See how it impacts your organization. The U.S. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has just rolled out the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Beyond surveys: Rethinking traditional approaches to ethical culture assessments

To build a robust ethical culture, ethics and compliance professionals need effective culture assessments to pinpoint vulnerabilities and proactively address them. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) update to the...more

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Navigating the DOJ’s New Pilot Program

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In a bold move, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a pilot program designed to encourage corporate executives to disclose information about financial misconduct within their organizations. Through this initiative,...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

U.K. Parliament Giving Whistleblower Protections a Fresh Review

Recent legislative developments in the United Kingdom, public remarks from the new director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), and recent parliamentary hearings on the Post Office Horizon scandal put a spotlight on...more

DarrowEverett LLP

How DOJ's Safe Harbor Policy Rewards Honesty Within M&A Deals

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Be you a merger and acquisition attorney, corporate compliance officer, or counsel to an acquiring entity or target entity, you should review the Department of Justice’s new Merger and Acquisition Safe Harbor Policy...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

How the Venetian Republic Invented the Modern Hotline-Into the Lion’s Mouth

It turns out that Venice invented the modern hotline reporting system with their Lion’s Mouth reporting protocol. The symbol of Venice is the Lion St. Mark. The use of this symbol has led to the maxim straight from the lion’s...more

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The “New” Face of Corporate Misconduct

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As we look across the corporate governance landscape and focus on the spikes of corporate scandals, I started to wonder if there was any pattern or trend to the nature of corporate scandals....more

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