While government officials congratulate themselves for a job well done since establishing the Corporate Fraud Task Force five years ago, experts tell Compliance Week that institutional fraud is still a rampant problem. According to a corporate fraud report released in June by Oversight Systems, 76 percent of certified fraud examiners believe corporate deception has increased […]
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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PerkWatch: Tax Planning, Physicals, Clubs
From exclusive “executive physicals” and club memberships to tax planning, home security systems, and car services, few limits exist when it comes to executive perks. While company aircraft use and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans top the charts as the two most popular benefits among 250 large companies analyzed by Compliance Week, other favorites offered by […]
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Picking Your Poison Pills Around The World
Picking your poison” is taking on a whole new meaning in corporate governance these days. Poison pills—the controversial plans companies adopt to prevent hostile takeovers—are rising in popularity around the world even as they are becoming more rare in the United States, according to a report by the Institutional Shareholder Services. “Every country has a […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
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 Pillmore Eric Pillmore, head of corporate governance at manufacturing conglomerate Tyco International, is leaving the company after five years on the job. The […]
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Despite Investor Dislike, SERPs Keep On Coming
If shareholders hope that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rules for disclosing executive compensation will bait companies into curbing Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans as an additional perk for executives, corporate boards are not biting. Yet. According to a Compliance Week analysis of perks offered by 250 large companies, SERPs are one of the most […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
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. Chief Accounting Officers, Controllers Ianotti Jacksonville, Fla.-based Rayonier has promoted Joseph Iannotti to corporate controller. Iannotti has served as assistant controller of financial reporting since joining Rayonier […]
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Corporate Aircraft Usage By Executives Soars
Two words best describe aircraft usage by corporate C-suite executives: sky high. According to a Compliance Week analysis of the perks offered by 250 large companies, personal use of corporate aircraft was the most common benefit, offered by 76.4 percent of the group. The compensation research firm Equilar further reports that the number of Fortune […]
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An Exclusive Report On Perks, Part I
2007 is the first year that companies must divulge in their annual proxy statements all of the lavish perquisites they offer their highest-paid executives—ranging from the personal use of corporate aircrafts, helicopters, and cars to company-paid country club memberships and home alarm systems. And according to a Compliance Week analysis of the perks offered by […]
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Courts Start Making e-Discovery Decisions
Corporate lawyers are starting to get their first glimpses into how federal courts will interpret new rules for “e-discovery” in civil litigation. In the more than six months since the amended rules for civil procedure went into effect, courts nationwide are only just beginning to decide the host of questions and disagreements bound to crop […]
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‘Secondary Actor’ Lawsuit Hits Fever Pitch
One of the most important securities litigation disputes in years is now hurtling toward the Supreme Court, which must answer the hypersensitive question of whether outsiders that help a company commit fraud can be sued by scammed investors in the company. Briefs for the case, Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta, were due June 11. More than […]
