This Week in FCPA-Episode 140 - the Godfather retires edition

The Super Bowl is Sunday. Will the ads be better than the game? Tom and Jay are back and as the pay tribute to the Godfather of compliance bloggers and commentators, Dick Cassin, who turned over Editorship of the FCPA Blog to his son, Harry Cassin. They also look at some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes.  1.     Why lying to your bank is always a bad idea.  The US government hammers Huawei with a criminal complaint. Will Huawei even be around? 2.  The SEC has a busy week.  3.  Got dinged by your employer for a FCPA fubar? No defamation claim for you. 4.  How should a board think about its oversight role of corporate culture? 5.    How should you brief a Board on Tech? 6. Where are behavioral insights in compliance? 7. Did conflicts of interest help fuel the opioid crisis? 8. Should year-end corruption perception rating be read with a grain of salt? 9. Odebrecht debarred by World Bank. 10.  Fighting corruption is a money maker in Saudi Arabia. 11. Tom is back with another week of compliance lessons from The Bard as he uses Shakespeare’s Problem Play to illustrate compliance issues. Check out the following: Part 1-All’s Well that Ends Well and Compliance Resiliance; Part 2-Troilus and Cressida and Compliance as Tragedy; Part 3- Measure for Measure and Creating a Game Plan; Part 4-The Winer’s Tale and Terminating a 3rdParty; Part 5-Timon of Athens and Risk Ranking Logistics Companies. The podcast is available on multiple sites: the FCPA Compliance Report, iTunes,JDSupra, Panoplyand YouTube. Soon to be on Spotify and Corporate Compliance Insights. 12. The Godfather of FCPA blogging retired this week as Dick Cassin stepped down from day-to-day running of the FCPA Blog, turning over the Editorship to Harry Cassin. The entire compliance community owes Dick a huge debt of gratitude. Tom and Jay reflect on how Dick and the FCPA Blog impacted their compliance trajectories.  Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist and can be reached at [email protected]. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at [email protected].  For more information on how an independent monitor can help improve your company’s ethics and compliance program, visit our sponsor Affiliated Monitors at www.affiliatedmonitors.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices