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No “Tone From the Top”? What’s Compliance to Do?

The job of a general counsel or anti-corruption compliance officer in managing a company’s compliance efforts is hard enough. It gets even harder when he or she lacks the “tone from the top” support...

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Three Lessons from Jack Abramoff for FCPA Counsel

Jack Abramoff was convicted in 2006 of fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to bribe public officials and served three and a half years in prison. He is the lobbyist notoriously known as the face of...

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A Five-Part Answer to the Question “Isn’t the FCPA Bad for U.S. Business?”

This weekend I attended a bachelor party near Yuma, Arizona. We canoed 40 miles down the Colorado River, the section of the river south of the Grand Canyon that separates California from Arizona. The...

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“Bad Press is the Worst Sanction”

In Latin America, a company’s reputation matters. At least that is what a recent survey concluded after gauging factors that motivate businesses to counter corruption. The survey, conducted by...

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The Ideal Compliance Team

I have previously written about The School for Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL) in Washington, DC, a high school semester boarding program that I co-founded in 2009 whose mission is to prepare our...

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FCPA Compliance: Getting Local Buy-In in Latin America

Getting local buy-in is essential to successful FCPA compliance efforts. It can be the difference between a check-the-box, attend-the-training program, and program that is values-based and internalized...

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Can FCPA Compliance Be Good for Business? What the experts say …

One of my favorite FCPA compliance visuals is the one about the ambulance and the cliff. The saying goes that it is much easier to park the ambulance on top of the cliff, where it can keep people from...

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When the CEO Says No to Compliance: FCPA Insights from Watergate’s Egil “Bud”...

A recent video posted by the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics highlights one of the most difficult ethical issues facing FCPA compliance officers – doing your job when the CEO does not want you to....

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Corruption and Football, and Reforming FIFA

No region in the world might have more passion for football (soccer) than Latin America. And where there is passion, there is money. And where there is money, there is corruption. One example of...

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Best Practices for Drafting Codes of Conduct

Oftentimes, a code of conduct is the first step that companies take when implementing an anti-corruption compliance program. The Resource Guide to the FCPA refers to the Code as a key document – “a...

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