What makes a fraudster? Indeed what would allow a person to knowingly violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? The Man From FCPA considered these questions when reading a recent New York Times article, which noted that: “people who tell small, self-serving lies are likely to progress to bigger falsehoods.” Most interestingly the research on which the article was based went on to note “the brain appears to adapt to the dishonesty.” This certainly has some very interesting implications for anti-corruption compliance programs.
