So you finally joined the 21st century and created a Facebook page. Now, proudly displayed on your profile for the whole world to see are your date of birth, dating status, hometown, college affiliation, and complete employment history. Welcome to fraud risk in the age of online social networks. As employees, acquaintances and everyone else […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
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Chief Accounting Officers at Circuit City, Chubb Resign
$11.7 billion Circuit City has announced the resignation of Philip Dunn as senior vice president, treasurer, and chief accounting officer, effective Oct. 18. Dunn has served 24 years with the company as the top accounting officer since 1996. Controller Michelle Mosier will take on Dunn’s roles in addition to her current positions. The announcement came […]
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DoJ: How to Detect, Prevent Collusion
In today’s inflationary market, getting competitive bids from suppliers is more important than ever. But competitive bidding doesn’t do you much good if the process is compromised. Snyder singled out bid allocation as an especially lucrative fraud, if done correctly. “Everybody gets a piece of the action, and as a result of that, knowing there’s […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries Mamalian $241 million Apptis, a provider of IT and communications services to the federal marketplace, has appointed Paul Mamalian general counsel and secretary. […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries Doody $8 billion Calpine Corp. has terminated Gregory Doody from the role of general counsel. In a regulatory filing, the company said the […]
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When Investigations Hit the BRIC Wall
Massive in land size, population, and economic power, the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—are global giants in every sense of the phrase. That includes the potential to give compliance executives giant headaches. Like it or not, Corporate America is stuck with doing business in the BRIC nations. They comprise 40 percent of the world’s […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. From the Regulators Paredes The Securities and Exchange Commission has sworn in Troy Paredes as commissioner. Prior to his appointment, Paredes was a law professor at Washington […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. From the Regulators The Securities and Exchange Commission has sworn in Luis Aguilar as a commissioner. Prior to his appointment, Aguilar worked as a partner in the […]
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2007 Material Weaknesses Plummet
The number of material weaknesses large companies are reporting has plunged in the last two years, according to an exclusive Compliance Week analysis—further evidence that Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, as onerous as it is, has compelled a dramatic improvement in companies’ internal control over financial reporting. Compliance Week reviewed the internal control disclosures made last […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries Ruff $8.8 billion Tenet Healthcare has named Gary Ruff senior vice president and general counsel. Ruff, who has been serving as Tenet’s interim […]