Haider Settlement
The ex-compliance chief of MoneyGram International Inc. (MoneyGram) is found personally liable for MoneyGram’s AML failures. The lawsuit is unprecedented ...
Tag: Yates Memo/Personal Liability
Due Diligence Questions to Ask During a Chief Compliance Officer Job Interview
In today’s regulatory climate, the Chief Compliance Officer faces increased personal liability. Asking due diligence question in a job interview ...
Jail Time for Not Knowing: Strict Liability for Executives Under the Park Doctrine
There is a case pending at the Eighth Circuit that should have the attention of every corporate executive. Two executives ...
Survey Results: Compliance Officers May Experience Mental Health Issues In Part Because They Feel They Have ‘No Permission to Fail.’
No one has surveyed the mental health and working conditions of compliance officers for 10 years. We decided that was ...
Fraud Section’s 2022: A Year of Individual Accountability, Cooperation With Foreign Authorities & Pushing Compliance Programs
Unpacking 12 months of DOJ Fraud Section cases: 342 individuals convicted
Recent SEC Charges Suggest CCOs Have Target on Their Backs
The SEC’s prosecution of chief compliance officers remains a fraught and controversial topic. A recent announcement of an enforced settlement ...
The Biden Administration’s New Attack on Corruption: What Businesses Need to Know
Though broad in scope, the Biden Administration's plan to counter domestic and international corruption follows four primary lines of effort. ...
Old AML Systems Hinder The Fight Against Financial Crime
Steps Companies Can Take to Improve Compliance and Reduce Risk Every year, billions of laundered dollars are moving through financial ...
Executive Accountability for Internal Cybersecurity Disclosure
ERP Maestro's CEO Jody Paterson discusses cybersecurity risk disclosure and compliance and how executives are being held more personally accountable ...
What Is the Current State of Anti-Bribery and Corruption Prosecution?
Trump and the FCPA Instances of global corruption pepper our newspapers and news feeds. Closer to home, allegations of corruption ...
2018 FCPA Year in Review
The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same With 2018 officially behind us, Michael Volkov looks at FCPA ...
4 Current FCPA Enforcement Trends
"Resources Reflect Policy" and Other Observations Michael Volkov discusses themes emerging in the DOJ’s and SEC’s enforcement of FCPA violations ...
