5/4/20: There has been an ongoing debate for years about how much power a compliance officer should have within a for-profit organization. Richard Cassin tackles that question in a post on The FCPA Blog, coming down on the side of more. In his post, Cassin sets the stage for the “more power” perspective, writing, “It’s the culmination of what the top names at the DOJ and SEC have been advocating for nearly ten years — compliance officers as gatekeepers.”
He then goes on to explain his support for the idea of more power and uses a recent example of to back up that support.