This Week in FCPA-Episode 145– Conferencing in America edition

Tom and Jay were both conferencing this week, albeit in different disciplines. Tom at Podfest Expo and Jay at the ABA White Collar Crime conference. In between they discussed some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes. 1.    MTS has massive FCPA resolution. Harry Cassin breaks the story.2.    CTFT to follow DOJ lead on enforcement and SEC lead on Whistleblowers.  Dick Cassin reports.3.    Hacienda Healthcare is one of the worst corporate governance failures ever. 4.    Gulnara Karimova charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering in the whooping amount of $866MM. Harry Cassin reports. 5.    Are consumers the new regulators of global business practices? Richard Young explores. 6.    Are Boards getting sufficient information on risk? Kristin Broughton reports in the WSJ .Matt Kelly says compliance professionals can help. 7.    Is Baker MacKenzie in deep trouble over JBS bribery settlement? Former partner to be deposed over hire of Brazilian prosecutor.8.    Dutch prosecutors have told Shell the company will be criminally indicted over its role in obtain drilling rights in Nigeria. Chloe Taylor reports.9.    Jay begins a new role as a Featured Columnist on Corporate Compliance Insights. Check out CCI’s cool new look. 10. Tom returns his periodic podcast series the Opinion Release Papers, with a five-part offering this week. Check out the following: Part 1-Opinion Release 10-03 on charitable donations under the FCPA; Part 2-Opinion Release 10-02 on hiring foreign officials as agents; Part 3- Opinion Release 07-01, travel for foreign officials; Part 4-Opinion Release 07-02, travel for and entertainment of foreign officials; Part 5-Opinion Release 11-01, why should you use the process.  The podcast is available on multiple sites: the FCPA Compliance Report, iTunes, JDSupra, Panoplyand YouTube. The Compliance Podcast Network is now also on Spotify. It is now also on Corporate Compliance Insights. 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