All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 138
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SFO brings charges in Tesco accounting scandal
Tom Fox examines the Serious Fraud Office’s recent indictments against three individuals from the October 2014 Tesco scandal in which the British grocery chain overstated earnings by fraudulently accounting certain revenues received back from suppliers.
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Stuart Delery joins Gibson Dunn
Stuart Delery, former Acting Associate Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice—the third highest ranking position—will join international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner.
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Visibility into T&E fraud with Insights On Demand
Oversight Systems, an operational expense analysis company, has released the newest version of Insights On Demand with scalable capability to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse related to corporate travel and expense transactions.
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Senators will grill Wells Fargo CEO about illegal accounts
Wells Fargo executives will testify before Congress this week amid revelations that employees opened unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts in their pursuit of sales targets and bonuses. Joe Mont reports.
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FIFA opens formal proceeding against Sepp Blatter
The ethics committee of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the international governing body of professional soccer, has opened formal proceedings against Sepp Blatter, the disgraced former head of FIFA, for engaging in bribery and corruption. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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SEC charges two firms with compliance failures in wrap fee programs
Two investment advisory firm—Raymond James & Associates and Robert W. Baird & Co.—settled charges with the SEC related to compliance failures within their wrap fee programs. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.
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Alpine Consulting forges alliance with Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes, a global technology company, recently forged a new alliance with Alpine Consulting, a firm that provides risk, threat, fraud, and compliance technology solutions.
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Podcast
Podcast: The new era of regulatory enforcement
Podcast: The new era of regulatory enforcementGlobalization, terrorist attacks, the digital world, and aftermath of the great recession are all shaping a complex business landscape with unprecedented risks. In our latest podcast, we talk to KPMG's Timothy Hedley and Richard Girgenti about these challenges and their recently published book, “The ...
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CFPB slams Wells Fargo with its largest ever fine
Is the Wells Fargo Wagon a-comin’ down an ethical street? The banking giant has been hit with the largest fine ever ($185M) by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in addition to terminating 5,300 employees and redoubling efforts to establish an ethical culture. Joe Mont reports.
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Medical equipment companies to pay $12M for False Claims Act violations
U.S. Healthcare Supply and Oxford Diabetic Supply will pay the United States more than $12.2 million for a False Claims Act violation in which they used a fictitious entity to make unsolicited telephone calls to Medicare beneficiaries. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Post-Brexit, is the sky falling in the U.K., or is it business as usual?
A mix of positive and negative indicators signal an uncertain economic impact for the U.K. from its June 23 Brexit vote, but the longer-term view still trends negative. Paul Hodgson reports.
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Law firm that ran whistleblower ads in theaters secures blockbuster award
When the Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions were passed in 2010, some plaintiffs' lawyers believed that a lucrative new whistleblower practice area might be brewing. One law firm even created an ad seeking whistleblowers that ran as a movie preview in Manhattan theaters. Six years later, this marketing seems to seems to ...
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Former SEC Whistleblower Chief McKessy lands at law firm
Sean McKessy, the former first-ever chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, is joining law firm Phillips & Cohen as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office. Bruce Carton has more.
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Compliance lessons keep coming from HP/Autonomy deal
HP’s legendarily bungled acquisition of U.K. software company Autonomy continues to provide valuable compliance lessons as well as one heck of a corporate governance horror story. Tom Fox reports.
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When good-intentioned sales incentives go bad
When do sales incentives move from the realm of legal to the realm of the nefarious? When do company communications become so code-word laden as to demonstrate corrupt intent? Tom Fox explores this latest trend that occurred at Fiat-Chrysler.
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SEC's $22 million award to whistleblower pushes program's total over $100 million
The SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower has been cranking out major awards all summer—the latest an award of more than $22 million—which means, says Bruce Carton, the whistleblower program has surpassed $100 million.
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Must-read: Fortune's 'Overturned--The Hedge Fund Trader Who Beat the Feds'
The September 1, 2016 issue of Fortune has a terrific article detailing the legal saga of former hedge fund manager Todd Newman, the defendant in a hugely important insider trading decision that has had a major impact on how prosecutors and the SEC pursue such cases.
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Blog10 years later, fugitive CEO pleads guilty to options backdating
Although the days of “options backdating” prosecutions are long past, the case against former Comverse Technology CEO Jacob Alexander, a fugitive in Namibia since 2006, ended just this week with his appearance before an unsympathetic federal judge. Bruce Carton has more.
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Apollo to pay $52.7 million for disclosure and supervisory failures
Four private equity fund advisers affiliated with Apollo Global Management agreed to a $52.7 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading fund investors about fees and a loan agreement and failing to supervise a senior partner who charged personal expenses to the funds. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Will VW impact international settlements for bribery and corruption?
The Man From FCPA Tom Fox explores the fallout from VW’s emissions-testing scandal and how the company will make restitution going forward to its customers, dealers, and other stakeholders.