This Week in FCPA-Episode 148 – the Hope Springs Eternal edition

As Opening Day near and the Astros are predicted to unseat Jay’s Red Sox to win the 2019 World Series, both lads are eternally hopeful for their hometown heroes. While debating this issue, they also take a look at some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes this week. 1. Former Hong Kong official sentenced for FCPA violations. 2. SEC awards two whistleblowers $50MM. Kristin Broughton in the. Matt Kelly takes a deep dive. Doug Cornelius gets snarky. Jonathan Marks weighs in. 3. Jonathan Ruschand William Weaverdebate whether corruption can be measured. Both on the FCPA Blog. 4. Was it fraud or was it incompetency? The HP v. Autonomy civil trial begins in London. 5. What is the difference in whistleblowing and extortion? Joe Mont explains.6. What are your supply chain risks? Russ Berland explores in Part 1 of a two-part blog post. 7. Looking at enforcement of financial market crimes in Canada and UK. Anita Anand reports. 8. What steps can you take to reduce whistleblower retaliation? Matt Kelly opines. 9. OECD slams Canadian government for interfering in SNC-Lavalin corruption investigation. Jonathan Rausch reports.10. Join Tom and AMI’s Jesse Caplan for a 5-part exploration of emerging issues in healthcare compliance and monitoring. 11. In Houston on April 11? Join the Greater Houston Business and Ethics Roundtable for a presentation for one year look back on GDPR. Registration and information are here. 12. Check out the latest edition of Great Women in Compliance where Mary Shirley visits with Marianne Ibrahim. 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