This Week in FCPA-Episode 150– the Easter/Passover edition

On this weekend, we have the dual celebrations of Easter and Passover. As Tom enjoys the Astros 11-0 run and sweeps of the Yankees and Mariners; Jay mourns his Red Sox going into the doghouse, they also take a look at some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes this week. 1. Corporations behaving badly are looming large in the news this week. What does Boeing’s culture teach us about compliance and ethical behavior? Former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn charged criminally in Germany.2. Mike Volkov takes a deep dive into the Standard Chartered $1bn fine for failures in AML controls, on his blog Corruption, Crime and Compliance. 3. How can you get compliance right when there are no regulations on it? Jo Ritcey-Donohue explores.4. Jay joins the bandwagon on compliance program as business enhancer. 5. GDPR-what happened to one-stop enforcement?6. How can the role of a monitor go murky? 7. When is a facilitation payment a bribe? Dick Cassin uses the Uber FCPA investigation disclosure to explore. 8. Trump administration moves to eviscerate agency ruling making? Joe Mont reports. (sub req’d) Matt Kelly discusses the pitfalls. 9. What businesses need to do now to prepare for Cyber Attacks. 10. This week Tom visits with AMI MD Rod Grandon on federal contractors and compliance programs. Check out the following: Part 1-Reponsible Contractors; Part 2- What the Government Expects; Part 3- Small Business Compliance Programs; Part 4-Why are we still talking about this?; and Part 5-Keeping it Fresh. Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. 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