- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2023-03-23T20:20:00
What is “extraordinary” cooperation? How is a self-disclosure deemed “immediate”? With a series of new policy changes at the Department of Justice (DOJ) have come requests from the compliance community for more guidance. Don’t expect the agency to budge.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. of the DOJ’s Criminal Division reiterated in a speech Thursday the agency will not offer prescriptive guidance regarding how it evaluates corporate compliance programs.
“There is no one-size-fits-all approach,” he said. Instead, he addressed ambiguity around certain terms included among the DOJ’s policy changes by pointing to some of the agency’s recent cases and declinations and advising compliance professionals to “see how [the terms] are applied in future cases.”
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2023-07-18T19:43:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. is set to leave the Department of Justice after a tenure highlighted by multiple policy changes intended to empower corporate chief compliance officers.
2023-05-25T19:28:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice has seen an uptick in self-reported potential misconduct by corporations since it increased incentives for voluntary disclosure, according to Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr.
2023-05-16T19:58:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Glenn Leon, head of the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section, said “compliance is a very big area of focus” for the agency, during a fireside chat at Compliance Week’s 2023 National Conference.
2025-03-27T13:11:00Z By Jeff Dale
The U.K. Financial Reporting Council issued penalties against PwC and a former auditor over deficiencies on work related to the 2019 financial statements of now shuttered Wyelands Bank.
2025-03-27T12:49:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Yet another government contractor has been slapped with a fine by the Department of Justice for applying lax cybersecurity defenses on sensitive government data.
2025-03-26T18:48:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
The European Commission released its preliminary findings last week regarding Apple and Google not complying with the Digital Markets Act. It issued orders to both companies regarding their business practice and plans to release all of its findings next week.
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