All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 137
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Bumble Bee to pay $25M in price-fixing scheme
Seafood company, Bumble Bee, pleaded guilty yesterday and agreed to pay a $25 million criminal fine resulting from an ongoing federal antitrust investigation into the packaged seafood industry.
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Former MoneyGram compliance officer pays $250K for AML failures
The former chief compliance officer for MoneyGram International has agreed to a three-year injunction barring him from performing a compliance function for any money transmitter and has agreed to pay a $250,000 penalty for anti-money laundering failures.
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‘Being data compliant does not equate to having data security’
Protecting your data involves more than simply following the paper program rules and regulations—you actually must focus on data security.
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United Airlines: using a compliance framework to further customer relations
United Airlines has been handed some positive compliance lessons from its recent public relations faux pas, including the forcible removal of a passenger, but will the company follow through on its pledge to make good on customer relations?
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SEC awards $500K to whistleblower
The SEC today awarded a whistleblower more than $500,000 for reporting information that prompted an investigation into misconduct that resulted in an enforcement action. It is the second whistleblower award announced by the SEC in the past week.
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SEC awards $4M to whistleblower
The SEC this week announced that it has awarded nearly $4 million to a whistleblower who tipped off the agency about serious misconduct and provided additional assistance during the ensuing investigation.
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Under new leadership, which way will the SEC go?
Big changes are afoot at the SEC, which raises the question of whether this might be the beginning of a big new era in the Commission’s tone, direction, and priorities.
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Corporations and the financing of terrorism
The recent case of LafargeHolcim’s involvement in keeping a cement facility in Syria safe and operational during civil war has raised questions regarding a company’s responsibilities for ensuring monies it pays out do not go to fund terrorism.
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What does contradictory due diligence mean?
A lawsuit against the Houston energy company Cobalt International Energy has posed a question which is not often considered under the FCPA—what does contradictory due diligence mean?
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CEOs and win at all costs—where does it lead?
A look at the corrupt conduct of Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick and the lengths some executives will go to in support of a win-at-all-costs culture.
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Volkswagen AG sentenced in emissions-cheating scandal
A federal court in Detroit has sentenced Volkswagen AG in connection with a decade-long scheme to sell diesel vehicles containing software designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests. As part of the plea agreement, VW will pay a $2.8 billion penalty.
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A farewell to Kara Brockmeyer but her legacy continues
The SEC bids a fond farewell to the head of its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit. Tom Fox looks back at Kara Brockmeyer’s illustrious career with the Commission.
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Raymond James to pay $150M to resolve fraud scheme
Raymond James Financial has reached a $150 million settlement to resolve all investor claims that the firm stole and misused millions of dollars raised through investments solicited under the federal EB-5 visa program.
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Compliance expertise on the board of directors
The recent corporate scandal at Wells Fargo highlights the need for boards of directors to have a committee devoted to compliance.
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Flying the (not so) friendly skies of United
United Airlines seems to be battling an internal cultural issue, as recent events suggest. The beleaguered airline is once again in the news—this time for forcing a paying passenger off a flight to make room for its own staff.
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Acquisitions, data privacy, and national security concerns
The attempted takeover of the U.S. company MoneyGram International Inc. by China-based Ant Financial Services raises regulatory concerns and questions.
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Toshiba—a culture of lies?
Shareholders react strongly to Toshiba's announcement of its intention to take a $9 billion loss for the year and the chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Westinghouse Electric Co., a U.S. nuclear-plant builder 87-percent-owned by Toshiba.
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Conflict of Interest—the revolving door turns both ways
A look at the case of U.K. entity HS2, the taxpayer-owned company building Britain’s new high-speed rail line, which recently revoked a key contract amid allegations of conflicts of interest involving the U.S. engineering firm CH2M.
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Compliance insights from a massive trading loss
Kweku Adoboli is the former UBS trader who took positions that led the firm to sustain a $2.3 billion dollar loss—as he dryly noted, “for which I took responsibility in September 2011—and to my eventual imprisonment.” What are the cultural lessons for compliance?
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ZTE accused of sending U.S. products to Iran
ZTE, a multinational telecommunications equipment and systems company, pleaded guilty to Justice Department charges it was illegally shipping U.S.-origin items to Iran.