Menu1/2/19: A December 21st press release about the year’s enforcement of the False Claims Act managed to stake out its claim to the page. DOJ recovered more than $2.8 billion in FCA cases in FY 2018. What is interesting in the press release isn’t the total amount recovered but the type of enforcement actions and trends highlighted by that total.
Compliance Communications Blog
Dec 18, 2018 •
12/18/18: A post by Martin Kenney, Managing Partner of Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors, on The FCPA Blog drills into a question triggered by an open letter signed by a number of former Australian judges calling for a national anti-corruption body.
Dec 18, 2018 •
12/18/18: Tom Fox is one of the compliance world’s most engaging writers and subject matter experts on anti-corruption and the FCPA. In a recent post on JDSupra, Tom Fox reviews the topic of internal controls surrounding gifts. He zeros in on employee expense reports as a mechanism of internal control over a company’s gift-giving policies.
Dec 18, 2018 •
12/18/18: On December 12, the UK’s Home Office released a news report about the UK being at the forefront of international efforts to tackle corruption. The article provides a good overview of new legislation and resources available to law enforcement agencies in the UK.
Dec 18, 2018 •
12/18/18: A Client Alert by law firm Morrison Foerster reviews the joint statement issued by multiple federal agencies about what they are calling “innovative approaches” to compliance with the Bank Security Act and anti-money laundering laws.
