This Week in FCPA-Episode 85

In this episode, Jay Rosen and myself take a look at some of the top compliance stories over the past week.

1. Are CCOs at risk? Indeed is should the entire compliance industry be running for cover. Adam Dobrik explores explore in GIR. Court Golumbic explores in “The Big Chill”: Personal Liability and the Targeting of Financial Sector Compliance Officers” in the NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
2. Tom and Mike Volkov argue the new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy has ended, once and for all, the debate around amending the FCPA to add a compliance defense. See Tom’s article in Compliance Week Magazine and listen to Mike Volkov’s podcast.
3. The FCPA will be with us for years to come, argues Jaclyn Jaeger in her Compliance Week piece, “How the FCPA withstands the test of time”
4. Teva Pharmaceuticals resolves bribery case with Israel authorities. Chiam Gelfand reports in a guest post on the FCPA Blog.
5. Ben DiPietro considers whether AI will have machine executable rules, in the Wall Street Journal Risk and Compliance Report.
6. Roy Snell publishes a heartfelt letter to retiring Pat Kelly, the FBI Integrity and Compliance Officer in the SCCE Blog.
7. Matt Kelly explore the salary misconduct penalty in two posts on his Radical Compliance blog, The Salary Penalty for Misconduct and More Thoughts. Matt & I explored the issue on the most recent episode of Compliance into the Weeds.
8. Jonathan Marks explains why skepticism is an auditor friend in Skepticism – a Weapon to Fight Fraud in his Board and Fraud blog.
9. Join Tom’s monthly podcast series on One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program, sponsored this month by Convercent. In January, I bring together the entire year of compliance program best practices with 31 days to a more effective compliance program. It is available on the FCPA Compliance Report, iTunes, Libsyn, YouTube and JDSupra.
10. Tom announces his next Compliance Master Class, sponsored by Marcum LLP. It will be held on February 12 & 13 at Marcum’s offices in Miami, FL. More information or a copy of the agenda, or to register, will be available on my website, FCPA Compliance Report or at Marcum LLP.
11. Join Tom and Dun & Bradstreet CCO Louis Sapirman for a SCCE Webinar on 360-Degrees of Compliance Communication. Registration and information is available here.
12. Jay is too worried about Tom Brady’s hand to get out a weekend report. Should he be? Jacob Feldman reports in Sports Illustrated.
13. We preview this week’s NFL playoffs.