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Judge Says Corporate Person Should Be Held Responsible
Here's a story that will warm the hearts of all who think more should be done to hold corporations responsible for their bad behaviour:
"Judge Rejects Plea Deal on Guidant Heart Device"A federal judge in Minnesota on Tuesday rejected a plea agreement between the federal…
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Business Ethics & Compliance 3: FCPA, Ethics Training, Social Media
I'm just back from New York, where I attended the Conference Board's Business Ethics and Compliance Conference, as a guest of the organizers.
This is the third of 3 blog entries about the event.
This morning I saw two presentations. The first was by Matthew… -
Business Ethics & Compliance 2
I'm currently in New York, at the Conference Board's Business Ethics and Compliance Conference.
This is the second of 3 blog entries I'll be doing from the conference.
I went to two very different sessions this afternoon. The first was on "Enforcing Ethics and Compliance… -
Business Ethics & Compliance
I'm currently at this U.S. Conference Board conference in New York: Business Ethics and Compliance Conference: Priorities in Today’s Regulatory and Enforcement Environment.
I'm here as a guest of the Conference Board. I was invited so that I could blog about the event. This will be… -
Profits & Disaster Relief
I'm currently spending a few days this week at the wonderful Kenan Institute for Ethics, at Duke.
Last night I was part of a Kenan panel discussion with Jacob Remes (a Kenan Graduate Colloquium Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in the…
Whistleblower Lawyer Blog
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New Rewards for Whistleblowers Reporting Bribery of Foreign Government Officials, Corporate Fraud In Foreign Government Contracts
When the President signed the new financial reform bill into law today, new whistleblower provisions quietly took effect to battle corruption, bribery, and corporate fraud to obtain foreign government contracts.
This new law creates the new SEC whistleblower program that we have followed since its gestation after the…
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Whistleblowers Reporting Derivatives Fraud? Whistleblower Incentives Must Be Paid by CFTC Under New Financial Reform Bill
The new financial reform bill that awaits the President's signature this week has something important for potential whistleblowers with knowledge of fraud in options, futures, derivatives and other financial products within the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The bill will modify the Commodity Exchange Act to provide…
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New SEC Whistleblower Program Approved by Senate in Financial Reform Bill
Since the SEC refused for years to heed Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolis' warnings that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme, we have followed with great interest the efforts of those who sought to create the first meaningful SEC whistleblower program.
The Senate this week took an important step…
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New IRS Procedures for Whistleblowers Should Encourage More Significant IRS Whistleblower Claims
This morning's Washington Post quotes me, among others, in criticizing one aspect of the new procedures for IRS whistleblowers recently published in the Internal Revenue Manual. That one glaring defect aside, the new IRM procedures are welcome news that should encourage more IRS whistleblowers to come forward.
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TARP Fraud and Other Violations Alleged by SEC Against Chairman of Major Mortgage Lender
As we have written previously, the billions of "bailout" dollars to financial institutions through the TARP program inevitably would result in many fraud cases, including some by TARP whistleblowers.
Today, the SEC announced allegations of TARP fraud and securities fraud of more than $1.5 billion other violations against…
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The decline and fall of the American empire
Economic historian Niall Ferguson warns that the American empire is on the brink of collapse.He says that all empires, no matter how magnificent, are condemned to decline and fall. Nothing lasts forever. More to the point, imperial decline is most often associated with fiscal crises where there are imbalances between…
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Old Spice sales soar with social marketing
Unless you have been under a rock for the last month, you would have known all about the Old Spice ad on You Tube which you can see below. Now according to Adweek, the campaign has lifted sales by a massive 107%. And it says a lot of that is…
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Losing billions in Iraq
The quagmire that is Iraq continues with revelations that the United States defence department can't account for close to $9 billion of money used for reconstruction.According to that report, the US Special Investigator for Iraq Reconstruction found that no one in the defence department could oversee how money from the…
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Study shows iPad owners are selfish elitists
What does your iPad say about you? Does it tell us you are a forward thinking tech type who is right up there at the cutting edge? Or does it tell us you are an insecure selfish elitist who was prepared to shell out hundreds of dollars to boost your…
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How boards inflate executive pay
While the rest of the world has been struggling losing jobs and homes, executive pay at the biggest banks and financial institutions has gone up. Particularly at those banks that were bailed out by US taxpayers which ended up paying $1.6 billion in bonuses, presumably for non-performance.A new study, reported…
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